typing the void

OK, just finishing packing so thought I’d take one last  opportunity to get you to consider to donate to my fundraiser for the Black Dog Institute. Full details are on this other post but the actual donation page is at: http://sh.ortenzi.com/z2z. I just had a look and we are a few k short of $100,000. Which is eye-wateringly amazing, [...]

As you know, I’m riding with a charity group in a couple of weeks. Hard to miss in here, but if you have, here it is: sh.ortenzi.com/z2z. Jim, Grant and the Andrews are asking around if anyone is free on oct 14, 15, 16 to help out as support crew for the ride. Please share [...]

Yesterday I joined a group from Lilyfield Bike Garage on a cycle up into Berowra, If you’re really interested, I created a Google map of the route we took, roughly. The reason being I needed to see what my fitness level was for the ride coming up on the 14th All I can say is [...]

Just sent out a huge batch of emails to friends asking them to part with their hard earned dollars in support of my ride next month. Copy reproduced below. If you are reading this and are of a generous spirit, feel free to forward it to any kind, generous soul you may know. Thanks in [...]

Another excellent training completed this morning in preparation for the zoo2zoo ride on oct 14-16, from Sydney to Dubbo, over the Blue Mountains, in support of the Black Dog Institute. I was feeling anxious about my training but am now feeling more like I’ll be capable of at least surviving the 420k ride. Hopefully the [...]

As some of you may have noticed, I am a cyclist. I’m certainly not shaped like a typical cyclist, certainly not like the ones who ride the Tour de France or barrel down bush trails on bouncy bikes at scary speeds, but a cyclist nonetheless. If you know me well enough no doubt you’ve heard [...]