I’ve uploaded the data to Garmin Connect. The first thing I can see from analysing it is that my heart rate shot up from 140 to 178 over about three kilometres on the ride up (from the bottom of the hill to Glenbrook), and I hit 70km/h briefly on the way down the same section. There were several sections of… Read more →
with spoils of war … to be precise, $30. That’s a long way for such a small amount. Still, it’s a personal achievement to ride there and back. I left Hazelbrook at about 7:30 – I would have gone earlier but Pete wanted to see me off. It took just about an hour and fifteen minutes to get off the… Read more →
he was waiting for food at Glenbrook. Since then, he has done battle with the perils of heat, traffic works (and traffic), and hills. As people would know, the road from Glenbrook to Hazelbrook is almost all up-hill. It’s also obvious that the heat of the day is roughly from 12 to 2. I really suffered over the section from… Read more →
I left an hour later than I should have – on the road by about 7:30. If the hottest time of the day is midday, I reached my goal of getting to the mountains before then. It took about 30 minutes to crawl up the hill, but I just put my head down and kept turning the pedals. The section… Read more →
