Describe Your Running Today, Part II

-477 days to MOARG

AM bike to school, bike to work

Yesterday, slow 22kms/2hr run over the range and down to the golf course. Hot again, 38 C by the time I finished running. Wildlife not very visible because of the heat.

Spooked a few roos and saw plenty of choughs and currawongs. Rosellas, herons, cockatoos, galahs and ducks and ducklings along the creek.

Today. Hiked 90mins with my wife at Black Hill near Kyneton this morning. Hot but shady. Spotted some wallabies and echidnas.

This afternoon an easy hour trot along the creek and around the golf course. Mid 30s so not much was out and about. Idid see a larger type of heron on the golf course dam. Plenty of roos under the trees on the golf course.

Evening, 36 mins easy spin on the bike from The De Castella winery, a rather impressive bit of architecture. Lou (Rob's brother) has built a barrel shaped straw bale "cellar door". Out through Pink Cliffs, Red Hill (great old mining areas)and into the Argyle forests. A bit of breeze and temps down to low 30s C.

AM; Cattle check, a large flock of turkeys was startled at my approach.

4 miles in 37 minutes. Going biking this PM.

The De Castella winery: i tried to look for sites in the Yarra Valley but could not find anything. Got a link?

mopak, driske, cant say i wasnt thinking of you guys this weekend. Went with three other families to Cortona to pick olives and almonds. I was on branches or ladders or weekend so no running, but really happy not to. The olives have to be picked up before it is too late, and this weekend was a cutoff date. Talk about plyometrics!

Anyway didnt have anytime to access web, too much farm life including some outrageously collective guitar howlin-singalongs with Vin Santo as accompaniment. One of the workers which helped us out was 73 and he climbed up the trees like our 9-year-olds.

What a rejuvenanting weekend. Now we await the olive oil. Some headline news of my student days always had to do with "arms for drugs" stints.

d, want to take an historic course, and concot a grassroots "olive-oil for maple-syrup" conspiracy? LOL...

MOARG -475

Mopak, The interesting side light in regards to the de Castella winery was appreciated. Bales were the first currency of our maze building/fort making attempts as kids.

tpcb,

I'll not be passing this idea along to my farm partner. He's been promoting all sorts of agro tourism models for years now.

Me? I'm not nuts about 7 day a week obligations any more. Sugaring is a necessary exception.(As is nearly any harvest)

I am grateful to you and all those who harvest olives for pressing. My personal favorite is thin sliced beef, seared in a pan of hot olive oil. Red wine is the fitting final touch.

The real coupe de grace would be to equip the kitchen at the Mittaghorn with an ensemble of our native treats to turn into table fare for us in 474 days.

PM; 25 miles on the Bearskin trail with the Bride. Spotted 2 mallards, 2 pileated wood peckers, and a single white egret.

A calm sunny afternoon with temps in the upper 30's F.

hills are my friend wrote:

Hill repeats up Thacker Mt. (Mississippi's second highest elevation) at 4:40 am in the darkness.

I lived in Oxford a couple months ago, great hill. I miss it. Be careful not to get shot by hunters in the fall though.

D, au contraire, i grew up slantedly metropolitan but thankfully in some areas where metro was actually not so metro. However, by present-day affinities, way too many highrise accomodations.

re. Mittaghorn: gentlemen, we have a winner.

As we approach target dates i suppose some attention will go to menu creation.

Roo stake? In hot oliveoil? i am not a huge meat eater. I have tried ostrich though...they have a "ostrich meat fair" near Cortona in the summer but, predictably enough, it's not the wild kind... reasonably tasty, much improved with Tuscan rustic approach... Anyway maybe too early to discuss, many more days to describe...

Forgot:

AM - walk to school and back. Took supertrampish long way home to see a new farmers market. Almost 1hr total.

Try

www.louisdecastellawines.com.au

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The wonderful Yarra Valley is south of the Great Dividing Range from us.

It is a beautiful area (near where I grew up) and very famous for it's wines.

We however are the Heathcote Wine Region. Even though we have less than 3000 people in our little town of Heathcote we do claim a whole wine region. Mostly known for the renowned Heathcote Shiraz. Our countryside and weather patterns are perhaps a bit more Mediterranean. We also have many olive growers in the area.

Kangaroo is quite a tasty meat if done correctly.

I stopped on the drive home from work and ran for just over an hour in the Knowsley forest. Hot and sunny, a slow pace over gentle dirt trails. Little wildlife about on a hot afternoon. Spooked 2 wallabies from under logs.

A 27min spin on the mountain bike late evening, numerous kangaroos spectating from the sidelines. 15mins spin on the windtrainer to finish off.

Early PM:

- Paolo Rosi track,

6x100m striders and drills including quadrupedia barefoot on grass

6x200m striders and drills including quadrupedia barefoot on track

6x200m striders and drills in my vibrams

1 last 300m

After 2 days off i wanted to do a bit of everything

AM: Heritage Run plus one. Not much afield on this frosty but sunny morning. A couple of Bluejays flitted off in the distance. One handsome Whitetail buck closely pursued a beautiful doe through the open hardwoods. Rut season is in progress.

8 miles in 66:04.

Frosty morning CAT-ski. 30 min.@110HR.

AM: began walk to school, daughter forgot her apron, had to run back home and run back to school. Good test of readyness; beat the bell;

Lunchtime: 1 hr track session with adult group; 3 more newbies

PM. Inky darkness under the moonless sky. Temperature a refreshing 28F (-1C). 3.4 miles in 29 min.

Dylan and Seeger on the i-Pod.

mopak, The BG's headlined a tune on "Dancing with the Stars"

Disco lives on. LOL. They were better than the worn out voice Springsteen displayed at last years super bowl.

Disco Live On.

driske, are we going to start a disco subthread? LOL, LOL, LOL. Grew up with that stuff. They hammered us with it. I enjoyed all music though. The idea of notes working together, even if only very simply, has always been a big listening motivator. Bobby McFerrin, some of the early less known stuff was pretty amazing...

today AM: walk to school, walk back, no sightseeing, 43 mins

where was i?.......friday did a hurried 30'-ish before the sun set.....delayed start after running into (not literally) my old hs xc coach and chatting it up for 15'.....sunday cranked out 50'......no big issues.....still a bit of knee stiffness......busy week going on.....not sure when i'll get out next.....

I managed a nice 40min paddle followed by an hours run then out for 35mins on the bike yesterday before my afternoon shift. The usual suspects on the lake, pelicans, cormorants, a variety of ducks, a few spoonbills, a couple of herons and plenty of noisy cockatoos and galahs. The run was a slow trot around the lakeshore.

Today I headed out early for an hour run via the creek trail and golf course.

I biked the last part of my work commute in along the rail trail, 35mins, 36 deg C. I rode home after work tonight at 10pm.

For a long time (15 years) I commuted daily by bike for at least some part of the trip to work. Unfortunately a change in job structure in my previous employment prevented me continuing. We were put on a 30 min standby rather than a rostered start time.

Decided I should try to get back into the habit, as my current job is close to our club rooms.

Hopefully the remaining BeeGees are "stayin' alive". We have our own version of DWTS here. Maybe they'll get a gig on our version too.

The disco phenom. seemed to squeeze right by me. I was more an "Ozrock" lover. Chisel, The Angels, the Oils and the great Stevie Wright. His "anthem" Evie was my ring tone until I drowned my phone recently. If you haven't heard it google it. Make sure you hear parts 1,2 and 3 though.

Amazing. You listen to Evie 1,2 and 3, and in the space of 12 minutes or so you can see how rock&roll adapted to become disco. Thanks mopak.

On a much more sober note Evie part 2 and all your ornitology sightings made me think back to this Procul Harum (because of the seagull sampling right at the start):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPwprLJZE34

This live version is much better quality but no seagulls:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6BzNEZxbiw

Lunchtime:

finally quick step to Villa Pamphili for pot luck lunchtime-session; ran into FrancoP, PaoloP, Paolo2 and FrancescoD and whisked 8x500m, 1:15 recovery all sub 1:50. Easy and smooth. Chinup bar. Bike commute to work (yeah, go for it mopak) will bike home.

mopak,

...and as "dreams" are an issue on this board, while we are on the subject of melodic rock&roll, make sure you listen to Part 1 and 2 of an all-time favourite "...must have been a dream, i don't believe where i have been... do you, you...feel like i do..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYGp5shqLZg

PART1

The instrumental is one piece i've always wanted to run to if it weren't for the fact i enjoy nat sound so much... i'sure i've had it on my mind more than once on a run...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPkwm8a1kBU&feature=related

PART2