its awesome. lots of awesome pics to come…
lots of surf beach & best of all quality family time…
lots and lots of riding 200+km = 6:30hr in just over half a week
add in total detox & training is so on schedule with a return to crits monday night
happy days
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i’m going to try and return the comments through the disqus engine. after so much spam with the normal WP comments engine i am hoping the disqus settings will eliminate these issues.
fingers crossed
day 05 – sting
once again churchy lent me his KHS to race on the final day of track 2011. it was day 5 of the carnival and being held at dunc gray velodrome. i met up with churchy and we drove down in the stagea and K and the boys came down later on to watch.
K was really impressed with the speed the racing is… more the others than me. having sore legs and that hiatus from riding i thought it best to just run around in D Grade. it could maybe, possibly be classified as sand bagging but even still i didn’t exactly blow everyone off the boards so it was probably the right choice.
race 1 was a warm up scratch and i had a poke way too early end fell back to around 5th place across the line. i think the lack of racing riding had me super pumped and a little to eager. i tried to move from the back of the bunch around the outside of the pack on the 2nd last lap and by the time i had i couldn’t help myself and just ran it to the line.
race 2 – a graded wheel race and i ended up being let off at the 55m mark. with no idea how it all worked even before the straight i had been taken by another rider and i just never jumped with enough speed to catch him or the bunch. finished last pretty much.
race 3 – KIERIN! i have always wanted to race a keirin. i ended up lining up as the first off the fence and sat behind the durney [which was being ridden by sean eadie] until it pulled off. with the gurney off and the drag gone it hit me like a tonne of bricks that i had to work so much harder leaving its’ draft. i still sat and on the last lap kicked it with a better timing than before but still not perfect. i finished 2nd.
race 4 – missing out points was again a case of bad management from me. off the fence i was in last wheel and i just never had enough in the legs to make it past the main bunch and by lap two i was out. so much to learn
race 5 – a combined scratch. basically you can pick any race and by now i had my brain almost in the right order and finished 3rd across the line, but again i had jumped a little too early and just ran out of gas.
as per usual we made our way to canley vale for special pork chop with the fam, churchy and andrea.
track again was so addictive. i really want to get to more in 2012 and props to churchy for lending me the KHS
this is my favourite pic of the meet
sticking to the schedule [which suits me as a rest week perfectly] it was time for a mid morning low intensity ride out to grose. weather was perfect and of course the locals were out everywhere. i still want to grab a baby one for lach – one day.
carbo is having some issues. he really needs a service. skipping and jumping all the time in mid to lows on the rear cog. i also had a slow/low impact OTB on the techy section at the back of the garden centre. no injuries or damage… just glad no one was around
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with such a hiatus from riding i am in need for some serious base. the plan for 2012 is to compete in all the rockytrail 8hr enduros solo. its not something i have tried before but i still feel physically i am much more capable of longer rides than short sprints.
the first race of the season is in 16 weeks and with a sorted training schedule for 2012 base 2 is where i will kick in this week. 10 hours was this weeks target and with 3 full riding days to go i have smashed it at 105% already.
i organised a ride with churchy and trieu, [trieu couldn't make it due to no baby sitter] a night ride from home – to the oaks up and back then home again. its a pretty impressive ride in total considering it is a 97.7km effort. i made it home at around 10:10 in a fair bit of pain everywhere but super happy with the full effort. i’m a long way off where i used to be but i believe in less than 2 months i should be almost back on schedule and hoping to keep up with churchy who was super strong all ride.
the best part of the ride was the single track section at night smashing it through there with confidence is pretty exhilarating.
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