Monday, August 31, 2009
Oxfam Pics
All smiles at the start.
The very first hill to climb out of Brooklyn.
Nikita's knee calls it a day.
Pete and Mark somewhere on the trail.
CP3 Apple Tree Bay.
Al and Mark
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Friday, August 28, 2009
My Current Location
Just before the bloody big climb out..... We lost Nikita at the last checkpoint a blown knee.
Sent from my iPhone
Thursday, August 27, 2009
OxFam "LIVE" images :-)
We'll see how good this technology thingy work? :-)
If I can I'll be up loading some video during the OxFam. Check out this URL link it'll take you to the clips.
http://qik.com/adv_aus
Moving pictures. :-)
If I can I'll be up loading some video during the OxFam. Check out this URL link it'll take you to the clips.
http://qik.com/adv_aus
Moving pictures. :-)
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Bring it on! D-Day - 3
The countdown to the 2009 OxFam Trail Walker is well and truely on. the training has been done, and the body rested.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Monday, August 17, 2009
Lake Macquarie Rogaine (15/08/09)
It was a sensational day for the 12hr rogaine, I was teaming up with my GEO buddy Coxy, our plan was pretty conservative, take it easy and injury free as we both has future events we were training for, me the OxFam in 2 weeks and Coxy the 100k Endurance Race in the Blue Mountains.
Our chosen route was pretty straight forward, but did allow for additional controls if we were ahead of schedule. We headed northwards out from the hash house, in a counter clockwise direction. We were both a little disappointed with the accuracy of the map, too many unmarked creek junctions and tracks. But then it affected everyone. The Tea and Damper stop was great a chance to revitalise the batteries with a nice cup of tea and piece of cake. :-) The track out of the control wasn't as straight forward as we had anticipated, I think we did a couple of loops before we could really say where we were.
In the end our progress was better than we planned so we were able to pick up another 5 controls. With our original objectives completed we didn't want to risk an injury late in the night, so we headed back into the hash house early.
Saturday, August 08, 2009
The big walk
It was time to do our last big walk before OxFam. We decided on starting from checkpoint 1 (Cowan) to just before checkpoint 5 (St Ives showground) this was because of access issues getting to the showground). The forecast was for a cool and windy day, it ended up being a great day for walking.
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