SSS the remainder

AROC Lake Macquarie

The last of the ARCO Sprint Series was held to day at Murray's Beach (new Swansea). There were heaps of teams, in fact they had to have three wave starts. This was a team training run for the "Big Fish Team" for the GEO in June. It was a good day out, a bit of sunshine, a bit of rain, a swim in the ocean and plenty of those hills we love to run and ride up. :-).

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Roll on August!

Keep an eye out for Team 160, on this years Oxfam trailwalker
event. :-) The question is, will I regret this decision??

GEO training weekend

We're finally washed and clean. It's been a hectic day and a half. It
started with a run out to long reef from collaroy plateau, then it was
over to church point for a split kayak/run for a couple of hours.
After a late lunch, we started off on ride to north head and theout
for a night paddle before bed.

It was a 03:30 wakeup call and we were off to terry hills for a ride
for a couple of hours. Getting back at 6:30 for. Quick hour run, then
out for one last paddle. Crikey.. Time for rest.

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The view from Collatoy Plateau.

It's a early start today for our first team geo training session.

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SSS Maps 1-9

Mont tent city

06:53

All done! My last lap of the mont. Oh the hot shower afterwards was oh
so sweet!

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02:15

Just completed my 3rd lap! Time for some sleep. Feeling good although
the rockier section as causing some issues on my rear end :-(

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Go!

Ready... set...

Welcome to the Mont 24 he

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Rain, rain and a bit more

It was another wet night, back in Canberra again. I'm certainly hoping
that's about it for the weekend??? Off to the mont, how muddy will it
be :-)

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Summer series legends Wendy and Mal

SSS26

The final run for the 08-09 season! Not my best effort this round due
to dome silly mistakes, so only 380 (no penalties) tonight. Thankfully
though the raining didn't fall while I was out on the course.

All in all a pretty good season i didnt miss a single event a "sss
tragic" for sure, my running was much improved and looks good for my
Geo efforts in June.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&q=-33.842159,151.171722

I'm hoping to get a copy of this seasons maps out in the next couple
of weeks.

Happy trails.

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The last run for the season tonight and it's going to finish the
season the same way it started... Wet! :-)

4 Days to go!

The Mont 24hr is nearly here. Now why do I do this to myself? :-)

Go Go!

My intrepide team mates.

ACT Paddy Pallin Rogaine

It was beautiful day and a perfect one for a rogaine. Here we are all
lined up and ready to go at 09:00 AM sharp!

Hanging out in Canberra tonight.

With the ACT rogaine happening tomorrow I thought I'd chill out with a
mate who coming along with me.

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A relaxing coffee start to the weekend. :-)

One of the reasons I love living in Sydney.

SSS25 Killarney Heights

The second last event for the season and it was a great run. I managed
a score of 470, my highest for the season. :-) with 40 seconds to
spare. Lucky too it looks like the sky is going to open up. Plenty of
lightning.

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After a fun filled day at work the last thing I want to do is bury my
nose in a text book :-( arhhh. Not happy Jane! Over it!

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The ride home tonight was great!

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I've decided that life's too short to worry about things that don't
really matter.

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38:12 around the bay today a bit overcast but cool to run, now off for
some coffee and a bite to eat.

Nth parra

SSS24 - Nth Parramatta

It was a perfect autumn evening. Perfect temperature and no wind to
worry about. 420 points saw me home, even after a 20 point penalty was
taken off. Woo hoo.

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Next Week : Killarney Heights

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MTBO Day 2 start.

Today the event started out from of the community hall. It was a mass start, and after the starter gun went off, it was a mad rush to count the number of points and sequence of controls to get. After triple checking my math and marking out my route, it was 18mins after the race had begun before I headed off. Coming back in 02hr:25min, I was pretty please, with my actual ride time of just over 2hrs. :-) Still there's always room for improvement.


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Not so Sunny Conner.

It was a damp and foggy start to the day, but the fog burnt off quickly enough to reveal a very pleasant day for riding.

A damp start

Saturday mtbo location was about 5km nth west of sunny corner. After starting just before 14:00, it would be another 2 and half hours before my return. It'd been a while since I had been taken the bike off road, and it took a bit of time before I started to feel comfortable again. Not the fastest in the field, but still had fun.

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Welcome to Sunny Corner. Here is where the mtbo will be run for this
weekend.

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Time for some lunch here at Lithgow.

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Dropped Pin

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Off to Sunny Corner tomorrow, the years first MTBO event. :-)

http://www.mountaindevils.com/

SSS23 - Belrose

A new map and a new course. It was a pretty spread out course, after
making it back 5 and a bit minutes late I was happier when I saw the
scores of the front runners. 320 for me. The rain earlier in the
afternoon made the ground nice and slippery.

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Next week: Nth Parramatta

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Sydney Summer Series: Belrose

Bay Run

Best to have something to eat before you to for a run :-). It was a
great day for a run around the bay, but by half way the tank was
feeling rather empty. Time for some breakie.

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I've decided to escape for coffee.

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Arhhh Meetings

Too many meetings today!

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SSS 22 - Riverview

It was a very pleasant evening for a run tonight. This week series run
was at Riverview. A bit of soreness made it a bit of a labored effort
and the hills a little bit hard than they should have been. 330 points
was the effort for tonight, including the 30 points penalty (damn that
time keeper) :-). Only 4 more events left for this season. Still a
perfect attendance.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&q=-33.821934,151.153824%20%28Kooyong%20Rd%20Riverview%20New%20South%20Wales%202066%29

Happy trails.

Next Week: Frenches Forrest

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SSS21 - Annandale

A muggy evening welcomed the SSS runners. It was great running about
my own patch again. It was all going to plan as well. After Sundays
metrogaine I was a bit worried about my hip playing up again, but no
worries there.

In fact it was the fact that I was ahead of my planned route that
caused me to try and pickup some additional controls. It didn't ready
work out timewise, cost me 50 points, but the run as good. 380
points. :-)

Next week: Riverview

SSS1: 370 (71)
SSS2: 430 (73)
SSS3: 350 (67)
SSS4: 410 (76)
SSS5: 410 (69)
SSS6: 320 (67)
SSS7: 410 (73)
SSS8: 420 (67)
SSS9: 400 (74)
SSS10: 270 (58)
SSS11: 430 (84)
SSS12: 380 (68)
SSS13: 250 (54)
SSS14: 420 (72)
SSS15: 460 (74)
SSS16: 450 (69)
SSS17: 340 (68)
SSS18: 350 (71)
SSS19: 440 (68)
SSS20: 390 (74)
SSS21: 380 (TBA)

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Rose Bay Metrogaine

It was an overcast start to the day, but cleared to reveal a glorious
summer day. The hash house was located at Rose Bay Primary School.
There were plenty of familiar faces from summer series and the odd
adventure race. This time I was going to team up with Gazza from Big
Fish. This was our first race together and a practice run for the geo
in June.

The course was spread from Bondi in the south, to wollarah in the
west, point piper in the north west and south head. Gazza and I
planned a counter clockwise route down to bondi, up to south head then
west to rose bay. We actually underestimated our run such that we had
about 90 mins to kill. With this extra time we headed back in land and
picked up another 7-8 controls. Unfortunately by the end of it my hip
was giving me a good deal of pain. So we decided to call it a day and
headed back with 15 mins to spare. I think we came about 29th overall.
Happy with that.

Results

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SSS20 - Seaforth

390, no penalties :-) Plenty of up hills but felt good doing it. Slow
and steady.

Not too many events to go. Heading to my home patch in Annandale next week.

Next week : Annandale

SSS1: 370 (71)
SSS2: 430 (73)
SSS3: 350 (67)
SSS4: 410 (76)
SSS5: 410 (69)
SSS6: 320 (67)
SSS7: 410 (73)
SSS8: 420 (67)
SSS9: 400 (74)
SSS10: 270 (58)
SSS11: 430 (84)
SSS12: 380 (68)
SSS13: 250 (54)
SSS14: 420 (72)
SSS15: 460 (74)
SSS16: 450 (69)
SSS17: 340 (68)
SSS18: 350 (71)
SSS19: 440 (68)
SSS20: 390 (tba)

SSS19 - Willoughby

After a brief afternoon shower the weather cleared for a coolish , but
humid run about the burbs. It turned out to be a fast course with and
I manager to pick up 440 and still have a couple of minutes to kill.
But the course was cleared easily within 38 mins..bugger.

Next week: Seaforth

SSS1: 370 (71)
SSS2: 430 (73)
SSS3: 350 (67)
SSS4: 410 (76)
SSS5: 410 (69)
SSS6: 320 (67)
SSS7: 410 (73)
SSS8: 420 (67)
SSS9: 400 (74)
SSS10: 270 (58)
SSS11: 430 (84)
SSS12: 380 (68)
SSS13: 250 (54)
SSS14: 420 (72)
SSS15: 460 (74)
SSS16: 450 (69)
SSS17: 340 (tba)
SSS18: 350 (71)
SSS19: 440 (tba)

SSS18 - Linfield

SSS18: 350 (71)

SSS17 -Balgowlah

It was an interesting run, it felt good, but ended up being a bit slow
and that means late.

340 was my score (70 point penalty).

Oh well that's how it goes.

Next Week: Lindfield

SSS1: 370 (71)
SSS2: 430 (73)
SSS3: 350 (67)
SSS4: 410 (76)
SSS5: 410 (69)
SSS6: 320 (67)
SSS7: 410 (73)
SSS8: 420 (67)
SSS9: 400 (74)
SSS10: 270 (58)
SSS11: 430 (84)
SSS12: 380 (68)
SSS13: 250 (54)
SSS14: 420 (72)
SSS15: 460 (74)
SSS16: 450 (69)
SSS17: 340 (tba)

SSS16 - East Killara

Rain, thunder, lightning, harder rain and some more rain was last
nights run. 450 points and no penalties was the result.

Next Week: Balgowlah

SSS1: 370 (71)
SSS2: 430 (73)
SSS3: 350 (67)
SSS4: 410 (76)
SSS5: 410 (69)
SSS6: 320 (67)
SSS7: 410 (73)
SSS8: 420 (67)
SSS9: 400 (74)
SSS10: 270 (58)
SSS11: 430 (84)
SSS12: 380 (68)
SSS13: 250 (54)
SSS14: 420 (72)
SSS15: 460 (74)
SSS16: 450 (tba)

SSS15 - Hunters Hill

Woo Hoo ... 460! :-)

Considering the heat today, I was very happy with it, I got all but
one of the controls that I had planned for.

Next Week: East Killara

SSS1: 370 (71)
SSS2: 430 (73)
SSS3: 350 (67)
SSS4: 410 (76)
SSS5: 410 (69)
SSS6: 320 (67)
SSS7: 410 (73)
SSS8: 420 (67)
SSS9: 400 (74)
SSS10: 270 (58)
SSS11: 430 (84)
SSS12: 380 (68)
SSS13: 250 (54)
SSS14: 420 (72)
SSS15: 460 (tba)

SSS14 - Chatswood West

420... finally a decent score. there wasn't too many choices available
to runners, it was either start running up through the bush (creek
line) and then up toteh ridge and back home or the reverse. The later
was my choice. Like most runs the first 10 minutes saw plenty of
panting.. those hills! :-) Once i hit the creek things really slowed
down.

Next Week: St Josephs College - Hunters Hill

SSS1: 370 (71)
SSS2: 430 (73)
SSS3: 350 (67)
SSS4: 410 (76)
SSS5: 410 (69)
SSS6: 320 (67)
SSS7: 410 (73)
SSS8: 420 (67)
SSS9: 400 (74)
SSS10: 270 (58)
SSS11: 430 (84)
SSS12: 380 (68)
SSS13: 250 (54)
SSS14: 420

SSS13 - Rosville Chase

Another hot and afternoon was had thanks to Malcom's course setting. I
thing the silly season antics have had a effect on my fitness. It was
a low scoring run, and coming in 11 minutes late didn't help the
cause. :-) 250 points. I think some drastic measures need to be taken
to turn this slide around. :-)

Suggestions anyone???

:-)