With 4 days to go, I think I’m just about ready for my own little Canberra not-so-grand depart. Completely out of line with my usual level of preparedness, I’ve even managed a little test ride with all my gear! not an epic ride by any means but a quick up and back along [...]
I have many a grand plan in the works, the most immediate of which a trip to Newcastle from Canberra via Lithgow & St Albans/Wisemans ferry way taking in as much dirt as possible along he way. Guesstimations put it at around 8-900km’s I think and I’m hoping to rack it up in [...]
The Ultra Cycling association in America has a “Year Round” award, awarded to those who can complete an ultra event greater than 100miles in each calander month of the year (with two make up rides). Over the last couple of years, I’ve made numerous false starts to this, with injury and other factors meaning [...]
I’ve hardly slept in the last couple of days. Monday night I was just flat out excited about the race this weekend and couldn’t stop running equipment lists and thoughts about how the race was going to pan out through my head. I’ve not been this excited about a race in a long [...]
While I had heared of the Mawson Marathon from a few friends, I didn’t even know what it was but already had precluded from my calander. Too many races, too far to go, it wasn’t hard to come up with a valid reason. Then along came Arran, an email, a google search and [...]