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More little victories...

I finally got around to weighing myself today. It has been quite a while since I last stood on the scales and I had some doubts as to whether I had lost any more weight, despite having put a couple of more holes in my belt in the mean time.



What I found was that I weight 86kgs at the moment. 4kg down on the last weigh-in.



In the mean time I have stopped commuting the 15km each way, I have started taking a very slow ride each day doing the 10km round trip taking the girls to… Continue

Added by Wombat on September 20, 2010 at 21:05 — 21 Comments

Sorry legs...

It was a big couple of days to end the week, with my ride up Col d' Lofty on Thursday followed on Friday with the evening at the Superdrome.



Perhaps next time I should time my track ride a little better so as not to coincide with another big ride, but it was a really good workout scooting around the track at >35kph.



It's a pretty scary experience for first timers on that steep banked timber track that creaks as you roll over the boards. The bikes are not silent. They rattle… Continue

Added by Wombat on September 18, 2010 at 22:30 — 3 Comments

Col d' Lofty stage 2

What a difference a couple of weeks makes!



Today I went out with a different plan in mind... the 30 minute Toll Gate to Bollards run up the old freeway/Mt Barker Rd.



I nearly got there too.



No walking.



The two sections I struggled with enough to get off and walk at the end

of August were almost easy by comparison. Don't get me wrong: it was a

hard ride, but here are the times...



Toll Gate to Bollards: 35minutes

Toll Gate to… Continue

Added by Wombat on September 16, 2010 at 20:30 — 11 Comments

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