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21 sleeps to go until I finish up at work, Bro :-D :-D

What a weird week it's been.

Friday - rest day.
Developed a 4 hour stomach bug on the way to work. Arrived at work, was sick & then turned around & headed for home. Given it's a 3 hours return trip, it was rather annoying. Slept 3 hours on Friday afternoon, another 9 hours on Friday night & woke up fine on Saturday.

Saturday
AM - 2:10 ride on the M7 bike path - 51.41k - av. 23.7k/h - av. 131BPM
Strangely after being sick on Friday, this was perhaps my best /strongest ride to date! Our average pace was 24k/h (a first!) until we turned off the M7 for the 2km c/d ride home. I also managed to stand the whole way up both of the big hills heading north near Elizabeth Drive; I've never had the strength / endurance / cardio fitness to do that before. Nice :-)

The day ended with R, Rags and myself attending the WWoT masked ice ball in Manly. A fantastic night of great food, alcohol & rope games ;-) to raise funds for the WWoT Seven Summits Team and the Fred Hollows Foundation. I managed to win two prizes in the silent auction - a gorgeous photo taken from Mt Elbrus in Russia (one of the Seven Summits & perhaps my next one after Aconcag) as well as a fantastic photo of Everest taken and signed by Lincoln Hall. However I think the highlight of the night was watching Rags being dragged, by his tie, onto the dance floor by a blond Amazon :-D

Sunday
PM - 2:27 hike w/14kg pack - 9.92k - av. 109BPM
After Friday's illness and a bit of a sniffle on Saturday, I decided to start my recovery week a day early & so cut this session back to 2.5 hours & reduced my pack weight to 14kg. Fully fuelled thanks to pancakes at Chez-Rags & lolly bags courtesy of Mouse & the kids, R & I headed for Glenbrook to walk up to the Red Hands Cave. I was a bit over the idea of walking & a bit tired but the company was nice :-)

Monday - rest day - 4 weeks to Kokoda!

Tuesday
AM - easy 30min spin

Wednesday - rest day

Thursday
An easy 30mins run at 4.30am [4.48k - av. 6:43m/k - av. 143BPM] and a 60mins strength session later in the day. Man I lurve weight training :-) Very excited to realise this morning that I only 2 more weeks of pre-5am training starts to go before I am a lady of leisure for 6 whole months :-)

Thanks to Ellie & Vurt for your hospitality last night (*waves*)

Friday - rest day - 3 weeks left at work! Bring on the Olympics - what is not to love about the Olympics - sport, sport & more sport :-D

MTD:
Bike - 51.41k
Run - 4.48k
Hike - 9.92k