Jessica Douglas - Artist / Speaker / Author
Day 4 in Mongolia - Race day no.1
Sep 2013Day 4 – Finally I get to race the Mongolia Bike Challenge For those who want to know, the facts on todays stage: Stage 1- Sunday 1st September 2013 Start at the Chinggis Khan statue, 7:30am. Distance 120km Elevation Gained 2900mts It was co...
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Day 3 In Mongolia - time to get to the race start!
Sep 2013Day 3 In Mongolia, Transport to Race Start – Chinggis Khan Statue Last night in the hotel, we had the race briefing and got to casually find out about the other competitors and their companions if they brought them. We also got told we need to b...
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Day 2 in Mongolia
Sep 2013What did the morning bring? Looking out the window to the landscape below my brain was trying to analyse some sort of system or code to the environment. I've never travelled to a place like this, for those that have visited Vietnam or India wo...
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The Trip to Mongolia - 28th August 2013
Aug 2013The trip to Mongolia has been long, not in time really, just in the journey. This started last week as we prepared for a big chunk of time away. I had to pack for 2 days riding my road bike and doing businesses at Mt Buller. Then the massive task...
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Old Advice & Still totally relevant...
Jul 2013Written back in late 2009...this is still as relevant today as it was nearly 4 years ago! We are all capable of learning and we are all in need of a reminder from time to time how to get results and reach our goals. This was something I wrote do...
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My Trip to France - Mont Ventoux
Jul 2013Mont Ventoux – just another hill climb until it delivered one amazing experience.... Recently I had the marvellous opportunity to join TOPBIKE Tour's Tour de France hills preview cycling holiday. When I was younger sometime around 21 years ago...
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The REAL me.
Jun 2013Every day passes by so quickly, I recall the days as a child when a day would last forever and school holidays felt like an entire year! I turned 40 this year, Norm will be turning 43, our daughter Saskia turned 19 and left home last week and I of...
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K.I.D.'S Foundation Ride & Forrest 6hr
Jun 2013So much time passes far too quick, and then I am a month down the track... Creative juices must flow to write for me, I really don't enjoy writing a race report for the sake of advising my readers what I have been up to. Today, rather than wai...
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Delirium 24hr Cycle Race - April 20-21st 2013
Apr 201324hr Delirium – Cycle Race Cowaramup, Western Australia Sat 20th – Sun 21st April 2013 I came to Western Australia on Thursday last week, knowing full well I had a 24hr road race to ride on the weekend. I had talked about it, planned for it, ...
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Bike Buller MTB Festival - March 9, 10 & 11th - 2013
Mar 2013The Giant “gigantic” Mt Buller Bike Buller Festivus! March 9th 10th & 11th - 2013 This is the 5th year of doing this amazing event and it does keep getting better and better. 3 events over 3 days. These are tough races and I personally know of p...
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Failing helps you work out what your next step should be
Mar 2013I have always used the annual Otway (now Kona) Odyssey as my gauge to see where my form is at every year. This year was my 7th time in doing the 100km MTB Marathon event. However this time was a tad different. Numerous events had taken place in...
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Always the Deep thinker...but when you dig a bit deeper you find treasures that others give up on
Jan 2013A reflection on the year that has been, 2012...and what is to come of 2013? We are all asking this every January of every new year. In 2012, I achieved so much and crammed in so much more than I ever thought or dreamt that I could do. Racing and...
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