Okay, so the Garmin 310XT is supposed to be a multisport GPS watch, but let’s be perfectly honest here – it sucks in the water! Not only does is refuse to measure a swimmer’s heart rate like the Polar range manage to do, it can also give a very distorted distance measurement and track when [...]
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Black Ops Running
After more than several weeks away from it, I resumed running this morning with the Shoreline Shufflers at Norah Head. This little running group meet several times a week, but I only ever join them on Tuesday mornings for a 7km run behind the dunes and along the beach before heading down past Norah Head [...]
Two Towers Training Run
With the Anaconda Forster only 6 weeks away, I thought I’d best ramp up my training a touch so this morning I headed out for a 8.7km trail run along the coast from Shelly Beach where I patrol. Starting at the patrol tower, this run took me southwards and up to Crackneck Lookout before traversing across the [...]
Another Multisport Training Session
As you may quite possibly know, I generally don’t like doing the same training session over and over again, and like keeping it fresh by doing something different on a regular basis. This weekend’s training session saw me try something new as a multisport training session which was most enjoyable and gave me the chance [...]
My Watch Was Mocking Me!
I wear a Garmin GPS watch when training, and one little feature is a Virtual Partner. You can put in a course – either one you’ve already done or one that you can download that someone else has done – and then it will measure how you are going in comparison. It will tell you [...]
Paddle Training Sickness
Nothing too serious here, but I went for a paddle in my trusty Mirage sea kayak this morning with my mate Stew Beef, and let’s just say that the conditions off Terrigal were a little less than glass-like. We spent half an hour heading towards Forresters Beach, and before we even made it to the [...]
Crackneck Rock Hopping
Over the weekend I did an awesome training event that I had in mind for a while. As some adventure races seem to feature rock-hopping along coastal cliffs, I decided to take on one of the coastal cliffs near where I live. This consisted of a regular trail run up and over Crackneck Lookout and [...]
