Hi Crawlers,

A ride up to Springbrook Bus Stop this morning, as usual, Barry bolted off and was first up the mountain.

It was cold but that was not a problem climbing, for the decent, all but Barry had jackets, it would have been a freezing decent for Barry, so Laura lent Barry her pink raincoat.

Photos and captions from Laura:

"James assures Barry that he can't be King of the Mountain till he wins Mt Coot-tha"

"Barry says I'm going for QUEEN of the Mountain in my new pink jacket"

Safe riding,

Brett

Hi Crawlers,

The Noosa Winter Festival comprises swimming, running and riding events over the 21st and 22nd May weekend. We met Bomber and Leslie up there competing in the half marathon. Laura and I rode in the Century (100 mile =160 km) ride.

Barry chose to just bring his running shoes and mountain bike, here's some before and after shots of his morning mountain bike ride in the forest around Gyndier Drive successfully exploring new tracks, a road the Triathletes will know as the windy road climb, it had been raining and Barry managed to find some mud:

This is the start of the 160 km ride, 6:00 AM on Sunday morning, it starts on the road where the Noosa Triathlon finish line is located.

It had been raining throughout the day and night before, and we had been expecting the worst, but amazingly, it did not rain at all during the ride. The course map is here It passes through the North Western towns of Pomona, Cooroy, with some spectacular forests and views, then through Eumundi, then down to Yandina, Bli Bli, then back along the coast North along David Low Way to Noosa with sea views along the way.

Laura and myself just after finishing:

We found some Burleigh riders at the finish, this is Bronwyn and her son:

And here's Anita and Del:

Our official time is 5 Hours 29 minutes, congratulations to Laura who came second in her age group !

Safe Riding,

Brett

Hi Crawlers,

Here's a snap of some bedraggled Crawlers and a new found friend in the peleton on completion of the 100 km Pedal for Postrate ride, held by the Friday Warriors last weekend.

Congratulations to the Friday Warriors for the well organised event for a good cause, numbers went up from some 140 last year, to 340 this year. The course was basically our Twin Valleys ride (Tallebudgera Creek Rd - Connection Road - Currumbin Creek Rd) with some Kirra thrown in to make up the 100 km.

Safe Riding,

Brett

Hi Crawlers,

Here's a happy snap from Laura's phone this morning - our destination at Point Danger:

Here's Ruth and Laura (at the Cafe just behind us in the above photo):

This one's at Connors a few weeks ago:

In additional to Sunday's ride, we a planning a ride on the public holiday on Tuesday, Mulumbimby was meantioned, or a local ride, talk about it more on Sunday.

Barry and I will be Mountain Biking on Saturday and Monday, so any interested, let us know, Barry has spare bikes if any are curious to try it out.

So many rides, so little time !

Cheers,

Brett

Hi Crawlers,

Tony, Laura, Pedro, Karen, myself rode the Ipswich 100 Imperial, also with Pedro's friend Darren, who was able to use Barry's entry.

The official web site is here Pedro's Garmin Edge 500 Bike Computer gives an excellent map and elevation profile here.

The course started at the Ipswich University site at 6:00 AM, we were blessed with near perfect riding conditions, cool, mostly cloudy, no rain, only thing a big South Easterly breeze, but that just made the ride home easier.

The event was very well organised, with marshals at every turn, but best of all, there were 5 food stops, generally with buns, bananas, watermelon slices, orange slices, water and electrolyte mix water. I carried my own food but didn't need any of it.

Here's the group at the 3rd food stop:

Except for Karen who turned up a little later:

The remarkable thing about this ride, apart from Ipswich and Boonah, I had not heard of any of the other villages we passed through, all new, so the whole ride was a big adventure into the unknown. Here's a photo of a Lake Moogerah, that is South West of Boonah, that was used for water skiing, sailing:

Tony had worked hard early on catching up, arriving 10 minutes after the start, then copping a flat tyre, by the time we reached the 4th Food Stop at Boonah, he was a little tired:

We heard of the infamous "Dirty Dozen", some reference to some hills we thought, we found out what they were refering to, starting just after Boonah, there were some 12 huge undulations, here's some shots by Pedro:

On the ride back, we thought the 100 mile should be some 160 kms, so when we reached the 160 km mark on our bike computers, we found ourselves still very much in the country side, and over the next rise, around the next corner, we were praying for Ipswich to pop up, well, we would go on praying for another 11 kms !, finally all over at 171 kms.

Some photos at the finish:

All up around 6 1/2 hours of riding, 171 kms, some 1800+ metres of accumulated climbing, we were a spent force:

Finally, a feeding frenzy at Maccas to restore some blood sugar levels, for a safe drive home:

A great day out on the bikes, thankyou to Karen for finding this gem of a ride.

Safe riding, Brett.

Hi Crawlers,

Had our scheduled Binna Burra ride on Sunday, initial riders were Pedro, Karen, James, Joe, Julie, Paul, Barry, and myself. Tony had slept in, and phoned this through, no problems, we adjusted our route to Christine Avenue to pick him up along the way.

A big ride, all up some 115 km from Burleigh Surf Life Savings Club carpark, and we battled against a phenominal headwind coming back via Nerang.

My bike computer gave accumulated altitude climb of over 1600m.

Pedro, Laura and I stopped with Paul and Barry at the Lower Beechmont Cafe for coffee and refreshments, while the rest rode onto Binna Burra. Paul and Barry returned home from there, so Pedro, Laura and I continued up to the top. It was Pedro's, Karen's and Laura's first ever ride up to Binna Burra, always a treat to get up there.

Here's at shot from Laura's phone at the top:

A video from Pedro's iPhone, on the way back - blasting through the undulations around Upper Beechmont: 

We returned to Burleigh at 12:30pm, so Laura, Pedro, Karen and I stopped at Connors, enjoying their "All Day Breakfast" menu.

Here's a brilliant ride stat and map information site from Pedro's Garmin Edge 500 bike computer, love it how you can "mouse-over" the elevation profile map at the base, and see where on the map, and the current stats.

Safe riding,

Brett