
So, the mission for the next two weeks:

Other activities today. Easy 10mile bike ride and an easy 25minute run, though temperatures where upto and beyond 26C. Have signed up for some surfboarding lessons and worked out that there is an awful lot of things here that I'd like to do: horse riding, vineyard tours, intersting walks, art museums, historic homes, nature reserves, Koala Rescue Hospitals, boat hire and even sky diving. Good job coach Joe sees surfing as "easy".
The guide book suggests some scenic drives, so I went on one to reccee the run and bike courses from the race, but to preview one I'd planned for tomorrow. I popped into Graham Seers Cyclery in the morning to ask for route advice. We did this in South Africa which was a really good thing to do. The advice there was "don't ride through town ships". Other competitors who didn't get that advice had their bikes taken from them at knife point. Lesson there, get local knowledge on where and where not to go. Fortunately Australia is sound, well this part is at any rate. With their knowledge and then adding my own spin on it I figured that as the Ironman bike course is a 60k out and back I'd extend it to a 130k out and back. Google maps gave the impression that was okay so went to explore. All great for the 30k of the Ironman route. Good for a further 20k or so, but then the tarmac ran out and the road though wide and fine for 60kmph driving was just dust. Don't fancy that on a time trial bike with race tyres that I want to race on in 12 days time. Click here to see the route I'd like to have done, the tarmac ran out south of Dunbogan
Have taken some pictures so far that I have put onto facebook of the local surroundings, bits of the bike and run course and the dust road way beyond the bike course. Click here for my Facebook Australia Album
Here is one of the scenic shots
1 comment:
Surfing (well) = easy
Ironman = easy
The above statement is relative!
Watch out for those OZI drafters :)
(the above statement is not limited to Australians, but also includes NZ, USA, GB etc etc)
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