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Defined Terms Business Plan Invitation Letter Attachment SWOT Analysis 8 Rigorous Recreational Exercise Activities Bushwalking - (i) is the Australian word for hiking or tramping. (ii) through undeveloped land or wilderness, on tracks, or cross-country through the bush. (iii) Australia has many large national parks which preserve scenic and rugged areas in their natural states. (iv) Australia's largest city, Sydney, is surrounded by huge areas of national park. Popular bushwalking locations within a few hours drive of Sydney include the Blue Mountains, Royal, Kanangra-Boyd, Wollemi, Budawangs and Morton national parks. Of these only the Blue Mountains and the Royal National Park are easily accessible by public transport. (v) Not less than 5km which may involve a scheduled 30 min cafe break at completion. (vi) May be just a day-trip, or may last for several days. For overnight trips, a sleeping bag, light-weight tent (or fly), and cooking pots and/or fuel stove are also carried (checklist). (vii) Sometimes bushwalks are combined with other activities like canyoning or li-loing (floating along a river). (vii) A compass and 1:25000 maps used for navigation. (viii) Back pack containing water, food, a raincoat, small torch and a first-aid kit usually carried. (ix) A hat, T-shirt, shorts, and light-weight hiking boots or sneakers are standard clothing. (x) Good light-weight camping gear is not cheap. A backpack will cost around $300, a down sleeping bag between $100-$300, a Thermarest over $100, a stove $100-$200, a light hiking tent about $300, a good raincoat over $200. The total kit could easily cost over $1000! You can gradually acquire all the gear as you do more trips, and once you've bought them, provide you dry them after rain or a dew. Most items will last you for many years. Specific attraction of Bushwalking include:
More info at Anthony Dunk's Bushwalking page Hiking means what in Australia is called Bushwalking. Lap Swimming requires skill and technique which often takes years of practice to develop to maximise efficiency. A lap is two lengths of a swimming pool in the same way that a lap of the oval is to jog around its circumference and return to the start point. Most regular lap swimmers will swim 16 laps which is a mile, or 10 laps which is a kilometre. The usual stroke is freestyle, however mixing a session up with other strokes such as breaststroke, backstroke and kickboard will mitigate a rotator cuff injury where a group of tendons can become torn, leading to pain and restricted movement of the arm or RSI in the neck by constantly breathing on one side only. Mountain Biking involves riding a bicycle designed for off-road, trail cycling. An individual sport requiring endurance, bike handling skills and self-reliance. There are aspects of mountain biking that are more similar to trail running than regular bicycling. Roughly broken down into five categories: cross country, downhill, freeride, dirt jump and trials/street riding. Characteristics of a mountain bike are: knobby tires, large round frame tubing, and suspension or shock absorbers. Mountain biking can be done anywhere from a back yard to a gravel road, but the majority of mountain bikers prefer to ride trails they call singletrack - narrow trails that wind through forests or fields. Unlike road cycling which originated in Southern Europe, mountain biking has developed primarily through innovation and participation from the USA Ocean Swimming usually between 1km and 2.5km, which traditionally have been organised by Australian Surf Life Saving Clubs. There are over 100 annual swims across Australia which attract up to 10,000 swimmers, including such longstanding events as the Palm Beach to Whale Beach BigSwim, Cole Classic, Shark Island Cronulla. Almost anyone who can swim 20 x 50m lengths of their local council pool can take-up ocean swimming. Learning to swim in a big swell is not as difficult as it might seem, as when the water rises swimmers rise with it, when the water drops, swimmers naturally drop as well. Probably the biggest difficulty is that there is no black line on the ocean seabed, particularly relevant in the annual Rottnest Island Channel Swim, the icon of marathon ocean swimming. It starts on a stunning white sanded ocean beach, Cottesloe, which is steeped in the beach culture of Perth and infamous for Great White shark attacks. The swimmers head west out to sea and somewhere between 19.4 and 23 kilometres later, depending on how straight they swim, stumble onto the sands of Rottnest Island invariably displaying well-earned self-confidence. Ocean swimming is ideally suited to women because of their better flotation and it is not a body contact sport. Invariably, swimmers socialise and mingle around the surf clubs after such swims and strike up friendships with swimmers who train at the same local pool or beach. whilst the sport is known as Ocean swimming, such events can be in harbours, lakes rivers etc eg 11km Harbour Bridge to Manly Wharf in March annually where swimmers may enter in a relay team of say 4 or 5 with a support boat thereby swimming approx. 2km each or as an individual swimmer.
Recreational Road Cycling involves
regular, recreational,
Challenging bicycle riding within a
Common Bond Support Group which involves at least 3 hours
rigorous cycling on paved roads generally around
the perimeter of Sydney early in the morning at
weekends, which requires a high level of
aerobic fitness.
Road Cycle Racing involves both
team and individual races which may be held over a number of stages or on a
single day. Other events include time trials (both team and individual) and
criteriums (a race of varying number of laps around a circuit of roads).
Races vary in distance from a few kilometres for some criteriums, to individual
stages of 250km or longer. The most famous road race is the Tour de France
which lasts for 22 days over 20 stages covering over 3,000km, averaging 160km
per day. Road cycling primarily requires strength and
endurance, although anaerobic capacity may be called upon in breakaways, hill
climbing and all-out sprints to the line. Road cyclists do most of
their training on the road, with elite enthusiasts cycling up to a 1,000km in a
week. Wind-trainer sessions and weights may also be included. Even at the
recreational level, cyclists often undertake a serious commitment to training. Distances of 300km per week are common for a committed recreational racer.
Different physical characteristics make racers more suited to different aspects
of cycling (e.g. sprinting, time-trialing, climbing). However, in general,
cyclists are muscular and lean. Low body fat levels help keep the
power-to-weight ratio high, particularly important for hill climbing.
Surf
Kayaking & Canoeing uses a
kayak
or a canoe
for moving across water. Kayaking is differentiated from
canoeing as a kayak has a closed cockpit and a
canoe has an open cockpit. A kayak uses a two bladed
paddle. Another major difference is in the way the
paddler sits in the boat. Kayakers sit in a seat on the bottom
of the boat with their legs extended out in front.
Canoeists will either sit on an elevated bench seat or kneel
directly on the bottom of the boat.
Triathlon means a 3 part athletic event
usually consisting of swimming, cycling and running over various
distances which occur back-to-back in immediate sequence with a
competitor's official time including the time required to
"transition" between the individual legs of the race. An IronMan
Triathlon is a long-distance triathlon event (2.4-mile
/ 3.86-kilometer)
swim, 112 mi (180.2 km) bike ride, and a 26.2 mi (42.2 km) run.
The first IronMan Triathlon was in Hawaii in 1978.
Tramping means
an American word for what in
Australia is called Bushwalking. |
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