GeoQuest is nigh... 48 hrs of pleasure and pain. Feeling good. Bring
it on. Watch this space. :-)

Dropped Pin (Woodford Oaks Trail Head)

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Mount Ku-ring-gai (bottom of Harwood Ave)

Bobbin Head

Dropped Pin (furthest point)

Couldn't find the track up the hill, the indistinct track will need a
bit of signage I think. Spent about 5 mins trying to find it, gave up
and decided to head back.

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Dropped Pin fini

It was supposed to be a 20 k walk but ended up being a 30+ endevour.
The route I want to use was closed for repair so I had to take the
long way round. 5h28m.

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Dropped Pin bobbin head

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Dropped Pin (Mt Ku-ring-gai)

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Dropped Pin kick off

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My last training walk?

This may be my last training walk before geo, next week I'll be out at
wiseman's ferry so I may treat myself to a lay in next saturday.

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Dropped Pin (the spit)

Just finished my paddle to Bantry Bay taking my new toy for a spin.

It was a wet one, was going to do 3hrs, but half that was plenty today.

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Done (Mt Kuring-gai)

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Dropped Pin (Apple Tree Bay)

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Dropped Pin (Mt Kuring-gia)

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Dropped Pin (1 hour)

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If you look closely you can see the moon set on the horizon, a beautiful morning.

Dropped Pin

Kick off Berowa, next stop Apple Tree Bay.

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Another early start

Off for another walk only 15k's today.

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Brooklyn to Berowra - the wrap up

Well, it was my intention to attempt the 30km walk within 4 hours, but after a promising start, things started to slow down on the descent to Jerusalem Bay, and while the climb out wasn't to bad (heading to Cowan) it still required effort. I was happy knowing that this was the direction we would be going on the actual day. The reverse direction after 70km didn't bear thinking. Once on the ridge (Cowan Station), Nick and i began the descent to Berowra Waters. Again a steep descent and the inevitable ascent start to take it's toll, but I knew this wasn't going to be easy. Again I'm thankful that the toughest sections are in the first half of the 100km's, and not the back end.

 

My knee started playing up on the descents, so I'll need to be careful and focus on some isolation exercises.

 

It ended up taking a tad under 5 and a half hours, not too bad for a section I've never walked before, so that's the baseline.

 

If we can get to Apple tree bay before night fall I'd be very happy, but now I know what I have to do.

 

P

Last stop Berowa (5:22)

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Hour5

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Hour4

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Hour3

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Hour2

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Hour1

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Brooklyn

Hour0 - kick off

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First oxfam run

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DJ Stubbs

Spin those decks part1

Arhh the weekend can't come soon enough! Over it.

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A lazy Saturday morning

It started with a warm up ride from my place to Centennial Park and a
quick lap, it was then off the bike and on foot to do a lap around
then back on the bike for a couple more laps on the bike one more
jogging lap and a final bike lap before I headed bck to Leichhardt and
a well earned coffee.

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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