September 2007

27-Sep-2007 - Trip to the snow

Its been over a month now since I went on a ski trip, and i've been quite lazy in updating my blog lately!

On the 16th - 19th August, we had a boys (and one girl!) weekend away to the snow. I hadn't been to the snow in a number of years, but always enjoyed it when I went.

So on thursday arvo Rick came and picked me up, then after stopping to pick up Lyndon and Harry we started the big drive down. We were to meet the others down there. As always, the drive is the worst part of the trip (for me anyway). 6 hours in a car is a bit much. We took a couple of rest stops but finally arrived at the Royal Hotel in Cooma where we met up with Quazi, Valentyn, Andrew, John and Steve.

Outside the Royal Hotel, Cooma with Harry.

After a few drinks and a well earned dinner we were off to bed.

It was an early start the next day, and we drove into Jindabyne and picked up all our ski equipment. We also met up with Mark and Thippy. After getting our hotel keys, we dumped all our stuff at our apartment in Jindabyne. It was a pretty nice place: 4 bedrooms, and a large lounge room. Then finally it was off to the snow.

We decided on Perisher because we had a few beginners and there is more choice for beginners at Perisher than at Thredbo. By the time we got there the road to Perisher was closed off because the car park was already full. So we were redirected into Smiggin Holes. For those who haven't been down there, Perisher Blue is made up of four smaller parks: Perisher Valley, Blue Cow, Smiggin Holes and Guthega.

Having a rest on the mountain

And it was off to snowboard it up! I finally managed to conquer the T-Bar this year... i've always had problems with it in the past, but no problems this time around.

The weather was perfect on the first day, it snowed on the second day where we were able to get into Perisher Valley itself. And the third day the weather was back to perfect.

Me pretending to do something. Dont know what though

On the saturday night we ventured into a local nightclub which was pretty good. Unfortunately it was an early start the next day so we didnt stay very late.

The whole gang in the bar next to the nightclub

It was a fun weekend. Everyone had a good time and I certainly improved on my snowboarding, despite a couple of big crashes! I look forward to next year's snow trip if someone manages to organise something.

11-Sep-2007 - City to surf

A few weeks ago I did the Sun Herald City To Surf. It was a really hot day and I was not as fit as I was last time.

After struggling for 14km I ended up with a time of 77 mins exactly. That put me in 7114th place out of about 60,000 entrants. A bit disappointing since I had managed 72 mins last time, and the cut off time for the first A group is 75 mins.

So next year i'll be starting in the second A group. I better train up properly for that one! :-)

Since that race I have been doing a 10km jog every week in preparation for the big 21km new years resolution jog I am going to do. It needs to be done within the next few weeks because the weather is starting to get hotter. Wish me luck! :-)