Okay, so in my webdesign and internet marketing work I help two businesses that are next door to each other at Berkeley Vale: one being a Central Coast gymnastics centre called Kimnastix, the other being a very classy Central Coast brothel called Sweets. Don’t judge me, they are both legal, legitimate businesses that provide a service to [...]
Not The Big Beach Challenge
Nasty weather and even nastier seas greeted the morning as I headed up to attempt a 32km run/walk along Stockton Beach as part of the Big Beach Challenge. Sadly, the event was called off for safety reasons (full marks to race organisers H Events for erring on the side of caution there), so instead of [...]
Tough Bloke Challenge
Bugger! Still sick! Have to bail.
Mountain Designs Adventure Race
Today saw me cross the line of my first ever adventure race – and I’m thinking it won’t be my last! The event was the Mountain Designs Adventure Race, run by In2Adventure and hosted at Riverside Oaks Resort on the shores of the Hawkesbury River just north of Windsor. It was a somewhat chilly morn [...]
Race Number Bibs
Okay, so I’m not that hardcore and I haven’t done every race under the sun, but what I do like doing after an event is hanging my race number bibs up in the garage. Recently, I’ve started thinking of taking them to a framing shop like Framing Memories and having them placed into individual little [...]
Winter Training
I had one of my best ideas ever whilst out riding today. The weather has taken a downward turn, temperature-wise, over the past few weeks, and whilst out training late in the afternoon I was struck by how chilly one can start getting at this time of year out on the bike. I looked down [...]
Byron Bay Triathlon
Byron Bay simply could not have put on better conditions for my first Byron Bay Triathlon. The water was deliciously warm, the breeze was refreshing but slight, the sun was shining and the birds were singing – all combining for a day where you were tempted to DNS and just spend the day lazing around [...]
Garmin Swimming
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 [...]
Swimming Out Of My Comfort Zone
I cannot remember the last time I was in a pool. For me, it’s open-water swimming or nothing. I do surf patrols and think nothing of doing a point-to-point swim across a bay or lake. I am pretty comfortable out there, and very rarely think about the dangers of open water. However, yesterday I did [...]
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 [...]
