EOS Trip...

average ride home Friday afternoon...

the stats:
start temp/humidity: ??.?/??% (apparent temp ?)
start time: 4:25pm
total distance: 12.18
total time: 32:58 (including 0:49 stopped time)
avg speed: 22.2
total calories: 468
avg HR*: 136

watched the second women's World Twenty20 semi, with Australia easily defeating the West Indies despite not batting particularly well...

Saturday I was up early to pick up Jodie and get out to Canberra Airport to pick up our EOS vehicle...I was one of 4 drivers for the trip with 20+ attendees...

we met the rest of the team at Dickson shops and headed off on our merry way around 8:30am once players were allocated to buses...we all had t-shirts on with our playing numbers and names in one of three colours (blue, green or orange)...destination unknown although most were guessing Wollongong...

our first activity on the way to the first stop (Goulburn) was to come up with a 30sec dance routine Gangnam style...this was performed in the car park next to the bakery near the Big Merino...quite funny and not too bad! our second stop was at Fitzroy Falls where we had morning tea...Jodie and I also did a "virtual" cache...

our second activity once we were on the road again was to come up with a fierce face paint design and then paint everyone's faces...our bus' colours were yellow and black so we became Team Tiger...

next stop was Kiama Beach where we had lunch and got to see all the other face paint designs...quite funny...

Kiama proved to be our ultimate destination...we were due to be playing lawn bowls (hence the face paint) but the greens were closed due to the wet weather so we variously ended up playing the pokies, keno or betting on the racing before heading to our accommodation at Kiama Harbour Cabins...

the afternoon was our own so a few of us did some caching including climbing out onto the rocky point past the lighthouse...was good fun...

it was a BBQ for dinner before most of us heading into town to the Kiama Inn hotel...a late night for most... Sunday we hopped on the buses for the drive to Wollongong for a 2hr surfing lesson...unfortunately it was cancelled due to dangerous conditions (the beach was closed to swimming) so three of us did some caching for a couple of hours (while the others played beach cricket etc) before heading back to Kiama and the re-organised lawn bowls...

we spent a couple of hours on the green then it was back to the accommodation again...dinner for the night was pizzas before some more drinking games (not for me!) and cricket watching for those of us who didn't go for a walk to see the blowhole at night...this time we watched the Australian women beat England by 4 runs - back to back World Twenty20 titles!...

Monday was time to pack up and head back to Canberra...we stopped again at Fitzroy Falls, this time for lunch - Jodie and I found another cache... back in Canberra by 3pm, the end of another well organised End of Season trip!

this morning I rode in a little bit later but it was still quite cool... the stats:
start temp/humidity: 9.2/72% (apparent temp 7.8)
start time: 8:30am
total distance: 12.00
total time: 31:32 (including 3:23 stopped time)
avg speed: 22.8
total calories: 400
avg HR*: 130