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Thursday night ride somewhere else...
Controversial I know but I'm a little over Terry Hills... and so can I suggest a Thursday night ride at Manly Dam, say 7.30 for a couple of laps (though feel free to just do one). Usual meeting spot parking at the Hydraulics labs down the hill from the School.
Post if you're coming please.
Ta,
Matt.
Automagical Driving Directions
As I alluded to the other day NoBMoB now has the ability to generate you automatic driving directions to each ride's meeting place. Kindof handy if you are a newbie to the ride, haven't been there for a while, or just have a terrible memory.
Of course to do this, it needs to know where you want to start from, presumably this will be your home, but maybe some place else like work, your riding buddy's place, etc.
Either way, to take advantage of this, goto your profile (or click the "my account" link on the left there) and edit it. Under the "Who you are" sub-tab there's a field, "Directions Starting Address"... fill it in away you go. If the ride database authors have been doing there job there should now be links to a plain old map and also directions under the "Meeting Point" field.
This is using Google Maps (so be sure it understands the address you enter), which can be a bit flakey right now - see the bad example 
- but I'm sure they are working on it as I write!
Port 12 hr enduro
For those who are interested, a tribe of us has returned form a successful venture to the Port 12 hr enduro. What an amazing event, we definetly have some goals to achieve now. An absolutley perfect track with everything in it. 8+ ks long but realistically rideable by any standard. We will be planning a day trip sometime in the future, will keep you posted on that one. Results are up at http://12hr.hvmtbr.com/
The 4 boys from Rainbow Cycles did a four man team and smashed it. If they didn't break a chain, which reflected in their lap 9 split time of 36+ minutes, they would have won their division. Rowan from Bob Wallis had some painfull night issues but after a nice 2hr+ nap, woke up firing and raced solidly to finish high in the solo placing's of 8th overall. Terry Bernut from Corindi, had a great start before snapping a hanger and unfortunately couldn't find a spare anywhere. My brother, Michael Hawke, started his second ever race in the solo division on a loan bike which he had never ridden before and rode in hiking boots before he hit the pre-dawn wall and like Rowan had a nice little sleep. Like Rowan he awoke with flair and gusto and punched out some nice laps. He tired around smoko and decided to share his bike with Terry so they could both post a finish time and enjoy the awesome track.
Quarry Road Fire Trail Thursday 8th - Updated
After being prompted to start a new thread.....here it is.
Thursday arvo after work say 6pm, depending on the weather of course.
See here for the link. http://nobmob.com/rides/berowravalleyquarry
Meet at end of Stewart Ave in Hornsby Heights.
Please respond to this post if you are coming.
Happy trails.
Sam
Endurance Nutrition
Just following up from here...
My profile for last year's Dirtworks is here:
http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/episode/730947
The HR graph tells the story... during the first few hours was able to keep the HR up and was doing OK-ish. Towards the end (the last 40%?) though, it dips quiet a lot. Notice I had a sprint finish, oh, the legs loved that
Anyhow - I was eating from the off. Powerbars (think I had 3 or 4), peanut butter & honey sangers (2 rounds) & Gu. Think I only had a 2 or 3 Gu.
Given a Powerbar is 236cal, Gu less than half of that, that's only 1416cal plus the sangers at best estimate (plus whatever energy was in 3-4 scoops of Enduro - 90cal each). Clearly this was woefully inadequate.
Terry Hills - Wed 7th - 7:15 pm Start
Hi Boys and Girls,
Due to popular demand there is a night ride on Wed 7th March. Start at 7:15pm (Ready to Ride).
We will be doing Duck Hole (or Duck Ponds for Christine 
), Center Track and back to Terry Hills.
Evan
Oaks Fire Trail 17th March
Hi Everyone,
A few of us are going to do the Oaks trail (Yes I heard you groan Liam) This time it will be with a twist. Don has agreed to lead us on the ride with his GPS to set the pace.
We aim to start at the top of the track at the gate at Woodford and finish at the top of the hill at the entrance to the park (Don? was that the end point we decided on?) after the weir at the bottom of the stairs in 1 hour 23min.
In order to keep it simple and fun. Don will set the pace and we (most likely me) will play the sweeper at the back of the back. It will be this person's duty not to leave anyone behind and to help if they have an equipment failure or just ride back with them.
Prescription sunnies
Hi everyone,
I need some nice sunnies for riding (i.e. light, covers your eyes etc etc) - but they need prescription lenses in them *hgrmph*
Anyone hav e any experiences or ideas of places where to look?
Thanks,
Flo
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:
