I last left you when we were in charge of the Motel, it was like having a real life, real size Wendy House!
Ben and I set ourselves a target to try and get at least 1 customer per night so 3 in total from un booked customers that turned off the highway to see if we could give them a bed for the night. 1 booking Fri and Sat, on target, nothing Sunday but 2 Monday, mission accomplished me thinks. I also took a number of bookings over the phone and net for the coming weeks, towels and linen washed, do you think this constitutes “running a motel” and worthy of a mention on my CV!?!
Weekend of the 25th and 26th Aug was yet another fairly hefty one in terms of training. Sat AM, up at 4am in the saddle 5.15am with the boys. 4.5 hours later we return to our starting point, 110k’s nailed which included the 12km Dorrigo climb, 30min run off and job done. Even with the climb in the legs we averaged 28kph, wahoo.
Not useful for much after a session like that, opted for a no intellect required but amusing at the same time movie, a Hugh Grant number, “Mikey Blue Eyes”. Big effort swim Sunday morning in the jetty followed by the ritual, coffee with Dan and Aimee which is then followed by the routine long run. Just shy of 30k’s clocked up again, high 5’s for Dan and Aimee who were smashing a shorter but more intense ramp run.
I have mentioned Dan and Aimee a few times in the blog in recent, they too are both training for their “World Champs”, Olympic Distance in New Zealand just a week after our World Champs. Ben is helping Dan with some coaching, the boy is flying! Aimee is properly giving me a run for my money and hot on my heels which gives that extra kick up the butt, she is giving Ben a kick up the butt in the pool, the girl can swim.
Games of rugby league and union seemed to monopolize our down time over the weekend. Caught up with The Bengers back at home with a skype chat to my bro, Alex and his wife Yvette. I also got to see my gorgeous niece and nephew. Ethan was “jamming” with the saucepans, making lots of noise, definitely a Benger!!!
Russell came back from visiting Nan on Monday, Marg will stay down there until the weekend. Ben just picked Russ up from the airport so I text Marg to let her know of his safe arrival and the dinner was chopped ready to be cooked to feed her boys!!!
Another job was ticked off the to do list this week, put our Jazzie car up for sale. We knocked up a Blue Peter “here’s one I prepared earlier” stylee sign to sit in the windscreen. The advertising and selling of your car is very different here versus at home. You park it on your front lawn or close to a busy intersection / roundabout and leave it there with its sign in the hope to tempt future buyers.
True to form some more BIG volume sessions have been put to bed which has meant backing up day after day on the battered body. Tuesday is our time trial brick session which had us in the saddle just over 4 hours, just under 2 of those hours were down on the aero bars pushing the pace, cruising at race speed. Out of the cycling shoes and into the running shoes we were pounding the pavement with our faster than race pace 2km repeats, 5 repeats today so 10km all up.
Wednesday’s early morning run squad is where the tough head had to be on and be the boss. The main set of the run session was 40 mins which involved 4 lots of 10 minute efforts. Guess what, each of those 10 min efforts did not get slower just faster and faster and faster. The last 2 mins was red lining it! On Weds I went with Group A the fast boys which of course includes Ben. Now this where there is a fine line between love and hate…..keeping pace with the boys was one thing keeping pace with the boys when Ben was up front pushing the pace is another. I think we were all momentarily relieved when he had to relieve himself, time catch my breath even if only for a few seconds!! A few 500’s to finish most people off but no not us. Team benben and the coach couldn’t get enough. 3 more 1km repeats was what Ben ordered, 3 more is what he got! And they got quicker. A 16km run set all up with very few steps taken over 4 min 59 secs per k pace.
The first weekend in Sept is Father’s Day over here, Ben spent some quality time with his Dad on Fri on the golf course. I am not sure how far the love was stretched, did you let your Dad win Ben!? Father’s Day, Sun 2nd Sept we (Ben and I not Ben and his Dad!!) had a duathlon, run 7.2k, bike 37k, run 7.2k a different format to what we have trained for and are training for. The event was a low key training session, go as hard as you want, as opposed to a full on race! For the race report I will hand you over to Steel, the organizer of this event. The below has been copied and paste from his round up e mail.
The leading participants in this year’s Blueberry Hill Duathlon took their personal challenge to a new level with the first two across the finish going under 2 hours and the third male only missing that objective by nine seconds. Reece Edwards set a new course record of 1.57.22 while Ben Webeck also went under the old mark set in 2010, 1.58.32. Daniel Stein collected the fourth fastest time since the event’s inception in 1996 with a 2.00.09 clocking.
Stein had the distinction of posting the fastest run leg with a 27.54 for his second 7.2 kms run after posting the fastest bike split of 60.42. Edwards had earlier established a small lead with a 27.58 first run only to be caught by Webeck on the bike. Edwards stuck like glue once he was passed and then posted a 27.57 for the second run to take line honours and the record. Webeck could be well pleased with his effort as he had enough left in the tank to ‘jog’ an extra lap of the course as part of his preparation for the Hawaiian Ironman Triathlon in October.
Also preparing for Hawaii and also running an extra lap was Webeck’s partner, Cat Benger who was the first lady to complete the course in the excellent time of 2.15.11. Benger led all the way after a 32.56 first run, finishing with a 32.24 before embarking on the extra loop.
Just as FYI Daniel Stein is the dude known to us and talked about earlier in the blog as Dan¸the one Ben is supporting. Great job boys! Aimee did not let the ladies down and pushed to the finish line to secure a 2nd place.
I will leave you there for this installment, on the high of our duathlon hit out .
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