So it was 3:30am and we were all awake bustling around in the tent getting our running gear together. It was only when Karen made the cheeky comment, “Look Jamie’s putting on a show for us” that I realised my amazingly bright camping lantern was casting a full body silhouette on the tent internal walls for all […]
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October
04
Dwellingup Drop Bears and Drop Bags
posted by Fitmidget
The good news is I survived the 81km WTF race The bad news is I went off course for around 9km. The best news is that I learnt something amazing about myself, finished what I had intended, and am a stronger person for the experience. So as Julie Andrews would sing “lets start at the very beginning, a […]
November
29
A Weekend Of Many First’s – Part 4….A race against the clock and the winner is…The Tastiest Milo ever.
posted by Fitmidget
I wanted to be able to say I had finished 12 hours all on my own accord, and by giving her my pack felt like my statement of ‘I Did it!’ would lack credibility. ‘Give it back please, I just can’t let you do it.’ I said. Bernadette, being a psychologist, later pointed out that […]
November
27
A Weekend of Many Firsts – Part 3 – Dung, Disorientation & Dirty Dancing.
posted by Fitmidget
Ahead of us was the thickest nastiest bush we had been through yet. The land was uneven and the bushes seemed to be taller and for me – all-consuming. It was at this point that the stinging of the scratches on my legs became intolerable and the temperature was dropping so I decided to get changed into […]
A Weekend of Many Firsts – Part 2 – Spurs, sandwiches and hallucinations.
posted by Fitmidget
After not initially knowing anything about rogaining, I had consulted the oracle (google) and learnt that rogaining was done in teams of 2-5 and involved navigating your way through a mapped area, cross-country and bushland to collect as many ‘controls’ as possible. I was soon to also learn that these controls would be worth different point values […]
November
07
A Weekend of many firsts – Part 1
posted by Fitmidget
So it was to be my last event for the year, and I’d chosen to go on a 12 hour Rogaine with a world class ultra runner, and a world class rogainer. What on earth had I gotten myself into! I left home at 2:30pm and my teammate Bernadette and I arrived in Nannup around three hours later and […]
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