Sat 10 Mar - Distance Training

Hmmmm... yesterday was hard. Hot and humid and only 33Ks in around 3 hours of riding. Although it had over 1000m of vertical I was disappointed at how tired I was feeling.

Time to get serious about doing some distance for the DW!

Where: Ryland Meeting point, Mona Vale Road (there's a dirt area with plenty of parking).
When: Saturday 10 March. 7:30am (I know some will want earlier, and some later so this is nice compromise).
What: Bit of distance and climbing (there will be some nasty hills) training:

- Ride out on Ryland/Cooyong trail.
- Take a right towards Terrey Hills and join the Sandy trail.
- Turn left there and head out the end of Sandy.
- Turn left down Anembo Road and ride round the reserve.
- Join the reserve to Bibbenluke Track (NB: I've never done this, but there is a trail and it's marked. It looked rough last time we were there though).
- Back up Bibbenluke, down a couple of roads to the Koala Park.
- Down the side of Koala Park and onto Booralie Trail.
- Duffys Trail out and back.
- Up Cullamine to join the Perimeter Track.
- Long Trail out and back.
- Out the other end of Perimeter and down various roads (Booralie/Laitoki/Cooyong/Coolowie) to East end of Neverfail Gully.
- Ride Neverfail Gully.
- Turn left and enter East end of Sandy Trail.
- Ride sandy back to the junction we came in on, turn left back towards Ryland.
- On meeting Ryland, turn right and go to the end and back.
- Then continue back to the start.

A very rough measurement puts this at 37Km, can only guess at the vertical, but sounds at least 1000m.

I can't ride for a while on the weekends after next Sat, so will want to press quiet hard - one should be able to maintain a 15K/h average on these trails which would put the ride time at an estimated 2.5-ish hours. Call it 3 hours for good measure? We'll probably finish in 4