T-167 Easter Sunday: why I ride.

Easter Sunday:

Today's sunrise is why I ride early.

It's so peaceful and to see such an awesome sunrise across my river (Ross River) from the Nathan St bridge is extra special.




Ross River, Townsville Easter Sunday Sunrise 06.22

I hope you enjoy it along with the Easter Eggs.

Guess I'll do a few extra kms to burn those extra calories.

Do you want me to do a few for you?

Happy to do so and in return I'd ask you to donate to my cause.

Smiling for Smiddy donations page: please click the link

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BTW:
Next post will be after we get back from the beautiful Whitsunday Islands...the logical place to go at Easter time. We are taking a well-deserved break from house packing & getting  ready for our garage sale next weekend.

T-174 Dodged a 'wet bullet' aka Cyclone Ita

Wet and windy outdoors, sweaty indoors.

Townsville although a tad wet, dodged a wet bullet earlier this Sunday morning as Cyclone Ita rolled over us a Category 1 Cyclone.

So instead of riding Mt Stuart this morning (see pictures below) I watched the powerful movie 'The Green Mile' with the brilliant Tom Hanks while pedalling away in the comfort of our lounge.

Afterwards a leisurely ' I Quit Sugar' inspired pile of coconut pancakes replaced the expended calories...thanks Sarah Wilson for the well-constructed recipes.

So its the end of my first week of training in preparation for the Final Leg & one more step towards my unfinished business.

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Love the stark contrast in these two pictures..isn't nature amazing!

Cyclone Ita induced cloud cover April 13th 2014.
Somewhere in the clouds is Mt Stuart (as shown below)

Normal view of Mt Stuart albeit early AM

T-175 Cyclone-induced Training Plan B (aka riding with Joe Bonamasa)

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Cyclone Ita, bearing down on Far North Qld, rated as a Category4/5 made sure indoor training became the order of the day. Not a lot of fun riding in torrential rain.

So dusting off the trusty old bike stand, with  the fan on high speed and a line-up of DVDs made life interesting for a long slow training stint.

[See the great picture Susie took this morning in the early hours of Saturday].

I managed to watch a fascinating episode in Michael Moseley's great BBC series called 'Guts', followed by a gripping Wire in the Blood episode (love Robson Green as an actor) & brought home by the brilliant blues man Joe Bonamasa, live in concert at the Royal Albert Hall (complete with a guest appearance from Eric Clapton).

So all in all the 150 minutes passed with relatively low levels of boredom, high levels of sweat and an occasional peak outside at the rain & plenty of gratitude that I didn't venture outside.


Cancer fact: 44 000 Australians will die from caner this year plus countless others undergoing treatment..

We need to get 'cancer' under control. You just don't catch cancer like an infectious disease.

None of us will escape either having or knowing someone who has cancer at this rate

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Sweating in the dark. Upside: No cars to avoid!

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T-176 Kissing Point ' perfect workout venue'

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What a perfect way to start the day...a walk around the newly re-opened Jezzine Barracks situated on a prominent headland in Townsville known as 'Kissing Point'.

 The redevelopment is brilliant & captures the indigenous & recent military significance to the sight....a perfect vantage point to repel potential invaders.

Also the artwork is amazing & beautifully landscaped.

So next time you are in Townsville check it out..it's spectacular.

We did a walking warm up and a Tabata session on the grassy area behind the gun station.

Definitely a great way to start the day with Magnetic Island aka Maggie in the background.

Supporting our cause:

Here's the link if you feel inspired to assist us 'Smile for Smiddy' and support my fundraising efforts.

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Thanks for your company John!

 

Magnetic Island from Kissing Point: before Cyclone Ita


 

T-177 Increased determination to make a difference

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Two things happened today to increase my determination to 'DO SOMETHING" about this insidious disease called cancer.

One of my generous donors has lost 2 colleagues in their mid to late 50s to cancer....more good people gone to early. Sorry about your losses Adam.

The second is reading a best seller book by Dr Don Agus, who has become very prominent in America recently. It seems we have made very little headway relatively speaking in reducing the deathrate from cancer and finding a cure when compared to other lifestyle diseases like heart attacks.

So please get behind me on this Smiddy Ride & let's do our bit to rid the world of this disease.

https://thefinalleg.everydayhero.com/au/ross

Too many people are dying needlessly.

One a more positive note a big well done to Bec for organising our Townsville BUG meeting & getting more people interested in safe cycling.

Love the Aplin Weir in the early morning situated on my river!.

Ross River. Early morning looking towards Hervey Range.

T-178: another early morning blast

Good morning tribe-members;

Just a quick post this morning as I will be watching Spicks & Specks tonight so no night blogging.

Susie and I love that show & getting into the new team & their antics.

Training Ride; quick blast.

So the reliable body clock had me up at 4 AM & out the door to join the Macca's crew for a quick 40 kms to Pallarenda & back.

Thanks to David, Gary Marty & Peter (complete with their new bikes).

Mt Stuart provided the perfect silhouette for today's picture. I love riding at this hour of the day. Little traffic and still coolish.

Tribe members:

Now stands at 10 with another donation overnight. Thanks Lee & Didi.

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Early morning Mt Stuart, Townsville's great backdrop

Cheers

Rossco

Day T-179 Smiling for Smiddy: my unfinished business

Hi all,

Day T-179

It's T-179 until I get back on my bike to complete another chunk of my original round-Australia bike ride.

This time I am joining the great Smiling for Smiddy Circle & riding the Melbourne-Sydney-Brisbane leg in October.

So I'm back in the social media world with a renewed passion & challenge!

I am tired and angry about the people I know and love that have been affected by cancer.

So as I said on my Smiling for Smiddy donations page..it's time for action.

Please click this link if you wish to be part of this ride.

https://thefinalleg.everydayhero.com/au/ross

So please join my journey as plan to share with you all my training stories and the quirky things us MAMIL's (Middle-aged Men in Lycra) get up to in order to stay fit and live life to the fullest.

Rossco's tribe of donors.

I have 8 wonderful people who have joined my amazing tribe of donors.

My initial goal is to get 100 people in this amazingly generous Tribe.

To be a member simply make a  donation.

Today's picture

Tonight I'm grateful for the moon and sunset to train with..got to love the  Tropics.

Last of the sunset..must be dinner time!

 

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