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So you've done City2Surf what other health and fitness events are run in Sydney? Well there's that Half marathon and that annual 7km bridge run... but here's another one: the Spring Cycle run by Bicycle NSW. I was actually doing it to raise money for my mission trip to build houses for the poor and unfortunate in the Philippines next year. (BTW: thanks to all my supporters, all my friends, family and godparents.) I know that the Spring Cycle is not a race... but I managed to complete the bicycle ride in 2 hours 47 minutes (the cycle computer stops counting trip duration if the bike is stationery for sometime - so my brief rest periods were not counted)... and according to my odometer the ride was actually 50.8km's (!) It's either the race is 800 metres longer than it claims ot be or I didn't calibrate the computer and the measurement has an error of 1.6% (That's statistically acceptable isn't it?!) I was really exhausted after the ride although surprised that I wasn't as cramped and sore as I expected to be the next day. I guess, cycling is such a low impact activity, it doesn't really damage your joints and muscles as much as running. The Sydney Spring Cycle was a fun bike ride and I wouldn't mind doing it again next year... [inset photo: Sydney Spring Cycle 2006; cycling across the Sydney Harbour Bridge]

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