Non Stop walk with Back flip and Pike. My original plan was to walk from Sydney to Newcastle along the Great North Walk in one continuous push. I was carrying enough food and gear for the whole walk, and had enough water storage to get through the longest, driest sections of the route. In […]
Nonstop walk Sydney to Yarramalong: trip report. Read More »
Have taken 2.5 weeks off, virtually exercise free. After my last Mt Ku Ring Gai to Cowan run/walk I felt exhausted, and everything hurt. It took about a week of rest before muscles in my legs and hips stopped aching, to be able to get out of bed in the morning without aches and to stop stiffening
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Cedar Valley Traverse, March 2012. Party: Saul Richardson, Jono Savery. At the start of 2012 both of us were looking to improve our fitness and lose weight. I challenged Jono to do the Blue Mountains Three Peaks walk with me in July, and he agreed. I thought it would be good to get him to
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One of my targets for 2012 is to compete in the Sri Chinmoy Sydney 24 hour race, June 23 – 24. It is the first organised sporting event I have ever entered. It will also be the first time, outside of training, that I have walked on a track. The venue is Blacktown International Sportspark
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Main selling features: • “zero drop”, but with cushioning underfoot • wide, especially around the toes. More foot-shaped than traditional running shoes • very light. My size 12’s are 290g each. There is currently a debate over “drop” and padding in running shoes. Which is better? Mainstream running shoes with their heavily built-up, heels
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Here is an account of a sub-48 hour three peaks walk I did in January 2011. It is the Blue Mountains three peaks, not the organised race of the same name. Over the weekend January 8 – 10, I decided to have a go at walking the Three Peaks in under 48hours. It is a
This began as a “straightforward” long walk of 138km from Mittagong to Katoomba along mostly dirt trails. What should have taken around 40 hours turned into a weekend epic, and quite an adventure. It involved landslides, floods, feral animals, hallucinations and even a light plane flight. The aim was to walk nonstop from Mittagong station to Katoomba
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