MArrickville to Melbourne the LOG
Posted: 30 Jan 2009, 10:21
Its Friday the 30th of January, 20 hours before team Dulwich hill takes on its biggest touring bout of the naughties, the ride from Marrickville to Melbourne.
Team Dulwich hill comprises of 7 hardcore tourers. First there are the two James’s:
James (T-Bone) Fowler: As you can guess from the name, James likes to eat a lot of steak, he also likes to ride up long, long hills, unfortunately for us, he has planned our journey, and we are going to be doing hills followed by hills and more hills, en-route of the snowy mountains, we are also going the long way to get there?! 1200 km to Melbourne?!
James Mabbott: James is our family man. Steady, smooth, and fit as a fiddle, all the while co-ordinating this fitness along side his wife and young child. Amazing.
James is also on the list of riders that it will be a struggle to keep up with, as he can cruise the hills at what ever speed he likes, while keeping his cool composure able to talk on totally unrelated topics with out thought of the effort being put in by other riders just to keep the bike upright.
While on the topic of hill climbing there is also
Matt Sellers: Who doesn’t just ride the hills, he lives and breathes them! Training for matt has been riding hill after hill after hill! (yes that’s right he has actually been doing more than just planning out his iced coffee stops like some other members of the group..) Matt is the sort of rider who doesn’t aim to win races, he strives for achievements more like the fixie century, rides that aren’t easy, but aren’t about winning, they are about achieving.
Then there is Mr experience.
Lindsey Monks: Lindsey is known for being the cruisiest cruiser there is in the bunch, and for his love of liberal politicians. He will be the one cruising along writing songs and poetry, giving advice that he takes from his extraordinary history of touring and tyre repair.
Coming up next, though he wouldn’t be this far back if it was a race, is the Australian national penny farthing champion!
Dr Huw Morgan: Or Huw Moran to some of his biggest fans. Huw though it may not seem so strait up, is one of Team Dulwich Hills biggest hippies. The maybe little known fact about Huw is that he is in fact the Dr, Dr of what? No one is actually sure, though we do know that it’s in some sort of hippie related science activity. Huw is coming along in preparation for the big race, the defence of his national crown as Australia’s top Penny-farthing racer.
And finally the name that on the track, is almost synonymous with DHBC, a name that has been fought out through riding in every possible event; the Llewellyn’s.
Simon Llewellyn: Simon, DHBC’s top track cyclist, known for competing in just about every state title possible at last years track state titles. This ride to Melbourne for Simon, is more than just a tremendously long tour with a bunch of amazingly big hills. For Simon this is the warm up for Australia’s biggest wheel race; the Austral! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austral_Wheel_Race) (www.theaustralwheelrace.com.au) Though this may not seem like the ideal preparation for such a race, it just wouldn’t be in character if Simon didn’t do more than just the race, he is going to do every thing.
And finally the lesser known of the two Llewellyn’s,
250 Timothy Llewellyn (Me): And no that 250 isn’t for the motor bikes, it’s the usual distance that it takes to wear me out. The aim used to be to get that 250 as fast as possible, but now its just to get fit enough to ride it fast, after competing in the rest of the race before hand. For me, this is about base fitness, Going on an iced coffee free diet, and losing enough weight to look good in the Team Discovery skin suit that was once owned by Matt White, the same actual skin suit as what would have been warn by Lance Armstrong.
This ride is going to be a bit of a hard slog, starting with a first stage ride of 160 km to Nowra, and then going on through 1200 heat saturated country NSW, then into the cold, windy hills of the nowy mountains, then into the heat wave of VIctoria.
Team Dulwich hill comprises of 7 hardcore tourers. First there are the two James’s:
James (T-Bone) Fowler: As you can guess from the name, James likes to eat a lot of steak, he also likes to ride up long, long hills, unfortunately for us, he has planned our journey, and we are going to be doing hills followed by hills and more hills, en-route of the snowy mountains, we are also going the long way to get there?! 1200 km to Melbourne?!
James Mabbott: James is our family man. Steady, smooth, and fit as a fiddle, all the while co-ordinating this fitness along side his wife and young child. Amazing.
James is also on the list of riders that it will be a struggle to keep up with, as he can cruise the hills at what ever speed he likes, while keeping his cool composure able to talk on totally unrelated topics with out thought of the effort being put in by other riders just to keep the bike upright.
While on the topic of hill climbing there is also
Matt Sellers: Who doesn’t just ride the hills, he lives and breathes them! Training for matt has been riding hill after hill after hill! (yes that’s right he has actually been doing more than just planning out his iced coffee stops like some other members of the group..) Matt is the sort of rider who doesn’t aim to win races, he strives for achievements more like the fixie century, rides that aren’t easy, but aren’t about winning, they are about achieving.
Then there is Mr experience.
Lindsey Monks: Lindsey is known for being the cruisiest cruiser there is in the bunch, and for his love of liberal politicians. He will be the one cruising along writing songs and poetry, giving advice that he takes from his extraordinary history of touring and tyre repair.
Coming up next, though he wouldn’t be this far back if it was a race, is the Australian national penny farthing champion!
Dr Huw Morgan: Or Huw Moran to some of his biggest fans. Huw though it may not seem so strait up, is one of Team Dulwich Hills biggest hippies. The maybe little known fact about Huw is that he is in fact the Dr, Dr of what? No one is actually sure, though we do know that it’s in some sort of hippie related science activity. Huw is coming along in preparation for the big race, the defence of his national crown as Australia’s top Penny-farthing racer.
And finally the name that on the track, is almost synonymous with DHBC, a name that has been fought out through riding in every possible event; the Llewellyn’s.
Simon Llewellyn: Simon, DHBC’s top track cyclist, known for competing in just about every state title possible at last years track state titles. This ride to Melbourne for Simon, is more than just a tremendously long tour with a bunch of amazingly big hills. For Simon this is the warm up for Australia’s biggest wheel race; the Austral! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austral_Wheel_Race) (www.theaustralwheelrace.com.au) Though this may not seem like the ideal preparation for such a race, it just wouldn’t be in character if Simon didn’t do more than just the race, he is going to do every thing.
And finally the lesser known of the two Llewellyn’s,
250 Timothy Llewellyn (Me): And no that 250 isn’t for the motor bikes, it’s the usual distance that it takes to wear me out. The aim used to be to get that 250 as fast as possible, but now its just to get fit enough to ride it fast, after competing in the rest of the race before hand. For me, this is about base fitness, Going on an iced coffee free diet, and losing enough weight to look good in the Team Discovery skin suit that was once owned by Matt White, the same actual skin suit as what would have been warn by Lance Armstrong.
This ride is going to be a bit of a hard slog, starting with a first stage ride of 160 km to Nowra, and then going on through 1200 heat saturated country NSW, then into the cold, windy hills of the nowy mountains, then into the heat wave of VIctoria.
three cappuccino's for me so far. 
