Run Run Running!

As the mornings get colder and colder, the doona gets heavier and heavier, can we get out of bed this morning??  Thankfully we've got a few reasons to spur us on.  One of these has just passed, the Great Train Race!  Yep, just us, our boots against a train!  (and another 3198 people).

The train winding its way through the Dandenongs

Easter Feaster!

The chocolate has been eaten, the hot cross buns cooked and burnt, and good times rolled! And so goes another Easter.
I don't know about everyone else, but Easter for us is usually spent in a tent in some amazing place in the mountains and this year had to have been one of the best!
This years edition found us and 12 good buddies up in the Victorian High Plains on a 4 day trek full of bad jokes, shit talking, all round good times, and someones forgotten boots!

A Pile of Good Friends

A weekend of bikes!!

Well this last weekend saw the Oceania Road & Mountain biking championships hit Shep Vegas.  A great chance to spend the weekend watching other people ride their bikes (I'm still not ready for much myself!!).  Had the camera slung over the shoulder all weekend and managed to capture a bit of the action so thought I'd share a bit.  Highlight of the weekend was definitely the mountain bike criterion!

The big drop on the crit race

The Mount Buffalo Feast!

The Labour Day holiday has rolled around again and it was off on the annual Mt Buffalo Glenrown Gang get together!  The ever reliable weekend was full of food, bush cafes and all round good times!

This years trip featured the youngens taking on dinner responsibilities and a monster pasta feast was promised!  The rest of the weekend involved not much else to be completely honest, everything seemed to revolve around food!!  There were a couple of walks (so we could make room for more food i'm guessing!) around the stunning Mt buffalo just to remind ourselves that we were at one of Australia's most stunning mountain areas!  There was even a cross country run for those energetic enough which saw more than a couple of us with tired legs and an excuse to jump into the freezing cold lake!! brrrr, a quick swim for sure!

Check out the photos below to see more of what we got up to!

Mt Buffalo Chalet, not a bad little mountain shack!

Ironman New Zealand Wrap Up

Well its all over!!! The months of training, long rides, long runs finding lakes to swim in has come to an end.  The Grand Finale was held over in sunny Taupo....... well almost sunny, but more on that later.

As mentioned in the last post the bags were packed (stuffed) and we headed off to Melbourne to start the adventure.  A great feed and comfy bed at Airport Aunty's place, saw us safely out to the airport at 4am... not wanting to make a habit of these let me tell you!  Long story short, we made it to NZ without a hitch, plenty of time at the airport to chill out (shock horror, no more missed flights this trip!).

Getting to our first motel proved to be another story however.  Following the instructions we got from Shirm and the net we cruised down the highway through some solid downpours (are they telling us something?) through to a quiet little town for lunch.  Back on the road to find that a fuel tanker had taken a tumble and the road was going to be closed for another few hours (is this trying to tell us something?).   Rightio, off on our detour tour.  Another hour into our trip, we find out that our directions were completely wrong and we had been heading to somewhere we shouldn't have been! Maybe the universe was trying to tell us something???

Shirm, Matty, Griffo (THM) and Miah pumped for the race!
Could have left the wetsuits on for the day!

Yep, we finally made it to Hamilton and the next day down to Taupo.  Find the house, check! (very comfy).  Get the bikes unpacked and put back together, check!  Check in and check out the pre races events, check!  Ready to go? Check!!