Thursday, April 23, 2015

Melrose

Wandering around the quaint little town of Melrose, SA. It is a beautiful location and was a really nice little town full of history to wander around and take photos :-)




Alligator Gorge

We were at a wedding last weekend in Melrose, SA. It is always a great opportunity to head to Alligator Gorge and get some photos. It is a truly beautiful part of the world to go hiking.






Monday, April 20, 2015

6 degrees and still swimming

I woke up this morning, with the goal to go swimming. Once I get the idea in my head, I'm pretty stubborn and find it hard to bail on my plans, so although the weather channel said it was 9 degrees outside, I dragged my ass out of bed, made a coffee and rode to Unley Pool, yes it's outdoors.

Once I arrive at the pool, the air temp is reading 6 degrees. Why am I out of bed? Now would be a good point to bail, but I don't and in the end have an amazing strength session in the pool. Due to the low air temp, the pool feels beautiful and I end up having a very productive session.

As there was no wind, and the sun was out, getting out of the pool wasn't too bad either. These are the sessions that lead to progress, the ones that you find hard to commit to, but once you finish, you feel so much better. It's this feeling at the end of a hard session that always convinces me to knuckle down and start a session that I don't want to do! I think it's this that keeps the training cycle going.

The sense of satisfaction for a hard session is always much greater than for a session that you were stoked to start!

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Silver Sands Multisport Festival

Last weekend was the Aldinga, Silver Sands Multi Sport Festival. It is a very cool weekend. The Saturday consists of a 10km run in the morning, and then a 2km swim in the afternoon.

This is then followed on Sunday with an Olympic distance triathlon. This all makes for a very fun weekend.

I was pretty happy in the end, running a 42 min 10.5km on Saturday, and then swimming a 35min 2km in the afternoon. I think the swim is a PB, and the run was great for me at the moment seeming that I am not doing much speed work and am only just starting to ramp up the speed.

This very successful Saturday, however, led to being fatigues as all hell on the Sunday and really feeling it during the swim, ride and run.

The swim was decent for me (25mins) but was painful, the ride was amazing and felt ok, but the run was one of the most painful runs I'v ever done, and I felt it in my quads like I never have before.

Anyway I crossed the line in 2:19, which is pretty decent for me.

Overall it was an amazing weekend. The Saturday run course was absolutely stunning, and the swim was the most beautiful swim I've ever done! The bike course followed the esplanade along the side of the ocean and some beautiful sand dune scrub making it one of the best triathlon bike legs that I ahve ever ridden as well.

Kate smashed the run and swim on Saturday, but passed on Sundays activities due to a few lingering Iron Man niggles. Instead she decided to look after our pain in the ass dog for a half day. Never doing that again :-)

Friday, April 3, 2015

Coffee Siphon

I got myself a new toy. This rad coffee siphon from Coffee Craft on South Road. It is super fun to use and puts on a bit of a show. It makes 5 cups so is perfect for a small dinner party.