Thursday, May 6, 2010

XPD team name change





Here is the link to the XPD live website.

We have had an official team name change. We are now Team Ay Up Grylls!

Bear Grylls is our team mascot & we are all running the best lights in the world Ay Up Lights.

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Comfortable in Chaos. (XPD team Moto)




COMFORTABLE IN CHAOS. This doesn't mean that chickens are running around with their heads cut off. When your socks are soggy, you have 1000 grass seeds in your socks, you're tired, sick of m&ms, mozzies are buzzing in your ears, leaches hanging off your ankles & a very long 40% gradient, deep rutted, slippery mountain presents itself you feel comfortable in the chaos. Look up, smile & yell at the mountain gods "Is this all you have!!!" I can tell you from first hand experience, this is not "all they have" hehehe... That darn mountain just kept going & kicked up even steeper around the corner.





We were in need of a kit check, team shake out prior to XPD. Liam from the Queensland Rogaine Association put together a "24 hour Adventure-Gaine" & it was awesome! Liam & his team of worker bees set out a great course & organised a great event.



If you were a novice you could achieve a result. If you were a pro you could smash yourself & the course was almost cleared by some of them.

The race was made up of Teams of 2. So our XPD team of 4 signed up & traveled together for entire race XPD style.





It is easy to quickly work out that Adventure racing is not just about smashing it forward. Planning & logistic preparation is a very large part to a successful race. If you pop your shoes in the wrong transition box, too bad.



Saturday, May 1, 2010

Caffeine has been poisoning me


A couple of health issues have popped up recently. After an unrelated visit to a doctor, it was suggested that my maximum limit for coffees should be 2! "What!? do you need me to chop off a few fingers also?"

There is no way I would go from my excessive daily caffeine consumption to zero. I don't care how nice 'cold turkey' is on a sandwich.

Here's the plan. Alarm 3am. Coffee number one. Get on bike. 2 hours+ later coffee number two. That's it for the day!

I tuck into a few decaf coffees during the day. No other caffeine & guess what? My general day to day health is the best it has been in a long time!

2 weeks till we head to Cairns for XPD. I have kicked the caffeine addiction.

Until next time, Smash 'em

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