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puch gone, dirty 50 a week away


Sunday, April 27, 2008


the puch sold. i am so amazed, i still remember walking up the driveway with the puch over my should and karen on the deck say “you, what is that???!!!!” and being cranky. well for $78.50 whos cranky now! no-one.
now what to do with my hard earned cash!

the dirt works is only a week away and i am a little nervous about it all. i still don’t have a functioning MTB and i haven’t had any really training. the front derailluer is on its way, lets hope it arrives monday and i can try and install it myself, if not it will be off to the LBS.
i rode tarini to winmalee on thursday, day off as karen was ill, and got a flat just before the shops. i locked him up and walked back home. bloody road tires! i did however get a 20km+ ride in today on him so i am trying to keep up some kind of riding schedule. 20km isn’t much but i did push hard on the hills etc.

jas and i will travel together. hes on the 100km so we can camp close to the track start line, as should nick and his brother be able to. i will take the camera to try and get some shots after i finish. can’t wait. its going to be hard but lots of fun. weather is very iffy again. i will probably pick up some gels and electrolites etc if i can before the race.

100km dirtworks - tarini update


Wednesday, January 9, 2008

nick from work just spoke to me and i am really keen to do the dirt works 100km ride this year. camp the night ride all day… then die/sleep all day sunday. sounds like my type of weekend!

karen and the boys just called to say they have picked up all the tarini upgrades. pretty exciting weekend ahead. i also went the full fixie last night and removed the front brake, and returned to 46/16 = 77.62 GR.

i am going to do the grose point ride this weekend rather than blue gum swamp. looking to set out early sunday morning to be back early to beat the heat.

Seen in Sydney pt3
I’m 90% sure she has returned home yesterday! thank good i feel much better about it all now.

I have now downsize my commuter pack to the torpedo 7 hydration pack i picked up a while back for $25. tis much better for commuting between the house and the silver ghost pickup point. the blackwolf 30 was just too big.