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Saturday,Dec 30 2006, 06:05:23 AM Mt. Tamborine, for the last ride for the year.

It is a morning ride to Mt. Tamborine before the years out.

I have contemplated the festive revelry and the opportunity costs associated with over indulging with alcohol and excessive food consumption and how to pay for it with expending the countless kilocalories from the festive delights through running, cycling, and swimming, in other words continuing with my triathlon training whilst commiting the cardinal sins of celebrating the survival of yet another testing year in Crestmead, Logan City, Brisbane and whereever within and without  Queensland, Australia.
Behold!!!The vista that is the Beaudesert Valley.
 
 
I often consider the looking back aspects of my past deeds in order to think whether I deserved to indulge today. As guilt ridden as I obviously do feel, I had to earn my keep and decided to return to do some debt servicing. I checked my pulse this morning and my blood pressure was normal, may be a bit high on the systolic measurement with a 132/83 and with a 48 beats per minute heart rate, this is above average for me. I can slow my heart rate to the low 40s and even to the high 30s.
 
For this breakneck speed heart rate I blame my Xmas pie and half a dozen Heineken bottles and some three bottles of red wine with my dinner (this has been over a two week period mind you) for my high BP read. 
 Behold Exhibit 1. I baked this custard pie for myself. It was HUGE. I ate it all by myself, with my sister's help, with heaps of beers and wine.
 
In my beer fridge I have the other half dozen of Heineken to go through and then there is the Kahlua for New Years madness AT HOME Alone!!! Utter madness heh!!!
 
I went to have my haircut in Browns Plains which cost me $17.95 at the Barbershop, then I measured my weight for my post Xmas penance and lo and behold I had gained a huge amount of weight...a whooping 2kg over the weekend. I weighed 81kg from my normal 79kg. That is for gorging like a pig I tell you!!!! My waistline was bulging at 32 inches or 79cm. I am normally 30 inches when I am training. Still, my stomach is a washboard, I can do my washing on it. I can't explain my sister's story though? She just remains BIG!!
 
So it was back on my bike and over some 80 or so kilometres later I returned home feeling very refreshed and well. I rode to Mt. Tamborine, the highest point on this side of South East Queensland and took some pictures, then I rode back home. 
 
It was very good to notice that the recent road works along Logan to Mt. Tamborine Road has been improved and so the ride was less treacherous. The Neuman Construction sign plainly gives kudos to the contracted tender for the road works and so most roadusers would undoubtedly feel somewhat indebted to this company, I know I certainly appreciated the great improvement of the road. Before the road works it was forever near falls, due to uneven road surfaces, and near misses, due to narrow roads with many meandering turns that are blind spots, with articulated vehicles, trucks and cars.  These natural hazzards are still there but at least there have been a dramatic improvement in the widening of some roadway passages. 
 

It was a cruising bikeride to Mt. Tamborine, averaging at around 26kph for the entire ride seems abit deceptive because I had done a lot faster than that over the entire distance but this may be due to the fourteen kilometres of arduous climbing over Mt. Tamborine itself. On my return though I had averaged around 41kph and slowed down to an average speed of around 34kph nearing Logan. In truth I had travelled alot faster on the downhill with a recorded top speed of 58kph whilst braking hard, I could have done well over 75kph if I had just let myself become suicidal. Mind you on the ascent I had averaged around 15kph this is mainly due to being heavy ladened with two full biddies and a heavy camera on my bikebag.  Apart from this fact I was feeling fine.

I have to save myself for a run session tomorrow. I have become the most gluttonous porka of late so much so that  I will, undoubtedly, rue the day when I indulged myself during the festive season, when I do the Luke Harrop triathlon scheduled for February, then Mooloolaba Olympic distance the following month, and then, finally, back to the Ironman series. 

So, have a safe New Years celebration.

I'll be cheering you from home. I have some more evildoing to do with some more coffees, with kahlua, Heinekens, and some more wining and dinning.

Then, it is penance time once again!!!! 

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