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March 23 to 29. * Training Week 3​2009 Fitness and Health Rebuilding Phase. Ten week plan.
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The Great South West Australian Forest Cycle Tour
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Monday 23rd
Day 1
After spending Sunday watching the finals of the Aussie surf champs, consuming far to many Coronas and roast beef sandwiches, I got to bed at about midnight feeling rather drunk and bloated. Though I had had a good time. At 6am I rose feeling rather seedy and hung over, packed up my folding bike and panniers before being dropped off by my mum at the Midland railway station at about 8am for the short trip into Perth to catch the train to Bunbury. On arriving at the Pert railway station I was disappointed to learn that the morning runs of the Australind Train to Bunbury had been cancelled for several months whilst track maintenance took place. Dissapointed for two reasons, one was that the thought of a 3 to 4 hour trip squeezed into a bus especially while feeling hung over was not that attractive. Then second and more important reason was that on this 6 day odyssey I was intendeing to retrace some of the paths I had trodden back in the 1970s when as a teenager I used to head “down south” for holidays. One of my fond memories being of the Australind train ride to Bunbury.
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Just after noon the bus arrived in Bunbury and I spent the next hour un packing and setting up my 20 inch Dahon Folding bicycle, having a bit of lunch, checking out the local maps and setting up my Garmin GPS. ...