Mt Donna Buang Ride

Halfway up the climb...

Yesterday I rode with two mates and we did Donna the back way, a 95 km loop from Mt Evelyn that takes in some gravel climbing up Don Valley Rd and then Ben Cairn Rd (C505) from the Warby Trail at Launching Place followed by the rapid descent down to Warburton and the weary trundle back along the Trail to Mt Evelyn.

Surplus quietly achieved anyway......

I passed my yearly target on today's last ride for 2012 with 10005.62 kms on the clock  and nearly 1100km coming in the last 30 days to meet that bloody target, including 5 rides up the 1:20 in the Dandenongs, Mt Donna Buang, a rare RingwoodRoadRide yesterday morning and a Beach Rd blast today on the old Raceline Peloton for the last 80kms.

In fact I've had to do over 3000 in the last 3 months to get there. No wonder my back gets a bit sore ....

Surplus Pledge Dumped ... !!

Press Release from the Office of SLOBSportCycling - Directeur Sportif:

"SLOBSportCycling Management have proactively determined to revise plans for a km surplus beyond 10,000 for the 2012 calendar year. Opinions from a multitude of cycling and relationship experts, gurus and naysayers, the best in the field, suggest it would be irresponsible to mindlessly pursue a surplus at this time. 

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2012 Around the Bay Ride

This year Kevin and I tackled the 100km Sorrento-Melbourne ride and had a great time. We managed to cover the course in just on 4 hours, which we were pretty pleased with. Kevin has improved a lot recently since he purchased a nice new Giant Defy roadbike, and we were actually leading a small peloton for about 10kms between Seaford and Mordialloc.

The weather was good - fine and cool, but a bit windy towards the top of the bay. Overall it was a great day out thanks to BNV and all the sponsors.

I also managed to raise nearly $1000 thanks to generous donations to The Smith Family from friends and relatives.

Weight Graph: From 15yo until now...

This is a record of my weight since the age of 15, when I stopped growing up ... and started growing out. Bear in mind that for my height the middle of the healthy BMI range (20-25) would have me at 69kgs. At 77kgs I pop through the top of that range....

Nom-nom-nom....

Just reward or slack indulgence? Yummy either way ....
Melbourne Observatory Cafe of course.

Ride to Melbourne Observatory Cafe 7th March 2011

Yummy !! Reward for the first 25kms... and fuel for the next 25 kms back home !!
Nearly lost the florentine to the pigeons when I went to get a spoon though .....

Sky(High)'s the limit....

Hijacked again !

Ended up at SkyHigh for the first time, and trimmed another 40secs of my 1in20 time. Very cool and clear at the top today, great views to CBD and YouYangs, nice hot choccy.

Followed the demon descender (thanks for the ride UJ1) down to Montrose and home via Mt Dandy and Maroondah Hwy.

ReddyNeddy Goes for a Run....

I'm healthy, but not fit. I walk a lot, and easily make the 10000 steps most days. I have a reasonably good diet I think, maybe just the quantities are a bit high. And at 1.75m and 85kgs I'm 10kg over par.

So I went for a run last Saturday week. I trotted gingerly around our local 'short walk' which covers about 3.2km (2 miles). At my peak ( a l-o-n-g time ago!) I could dash around this track in less than 15 min. Last Saturday week it took me 25 min....and I jogged about 2.5 kms of the distance - pretty slowly.

So today... 9 days later... I went out again. This time I strapped the dicky knee, warmed up for about 4 mins on the road bike aero-trainer. This time I jogged 90% of the way and took 21 mins.

So that's good, right?

The frst time I 'jammed up' for a few days after (ok for about 5 days) and then just didn't get around to another effort until today but hopefully I can get out again next Saturday or Sunday evening i.e. in about 5 or 6 days.

That's the plan.