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very rare head shot of me. love this women…

the girl ... one morning

so this week we spent as much time as possible at the entrance before having to return home because K is working 3 days. each day [except friday] i was out riding from 6:00am riding the local loop. by the thursday i had extended it to a perfect 60km circuit that is comfortable, feels reasonably safe and most of all enjoyable.

i had a couple of attempts at the KOM on wilfred and moved from 19th overall to 4th. we are returning next week and i am hoping the weather will hold out so i can give it one last proper attempt. im hoping to move into third place overall

on top of the riding i was also going to the beach and swimming, helping the boys catch waves on the boogie board etc so its been a pretty massive week in total. the knee held up really well till friday when i was in the surf – it started to have a smaller ache again but it is more a water issue than bike. holidays have been awesome with the weather being semi kind most days although lots of the mornings it rained so i would return home after the ride filthy dirty

at one point we were tossing around the idea of buying a caravan at norah head… i would still love to

this is my favourite pic from the first weeks break

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i just worked out / found this embed widget on strava. its been a good week so far and hoping it will end up above an 11hr with big geared climbs and strength as the focus.

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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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so with the 50mm mounted i returned to PT but this time only to shoot the session. the yashica lens focus ring feedback on the 50mm lens is just beautiful, you can really enjoy the experience of finding focus holding a metal lens even if it is difficult to see on the LCD screen.

i’m still finding some exposure issues as well with the manually mounted lens. the metering isn’t that accurate and its a little frustrating with a LCD screen to really check the exposures when your outside in bright light. in all i think the result is bloody nice considering i only took 1 hr to cut the edit, grade footage etc. i’d just like to swap out one shot, the over the shoulder one as it has too much hand held shake for my liking.

still no tamron yet which pissing me off

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[warning - this is going to be a potty mouth post]
yep, its now official. after 2 days of 4-7hours of only painting, well basic walking around on my knee is just fucked. totally fucken fucked and i am so pissed off about it.
the click in it is just bullshit loud. it aches, won’t move, is stiff, hurts
farken hell!!!!

i didn’t really do that much work today. like – my right leg isn’t even close to being tired.

basically two weeks ago at PT on the monday i was doing some more cross-fit style of excercise when it went to the shitter. we were bear walking in reverse [basically this] with sit ups thrown into the session. after the 5 x work out we were then going to jog over and across the walkway bridge.
i started to jog and then all of a sudden my left knee had a massive sharp pain. i stopped, walked a few steps and tried to jog again only to have the same pain.
i gave up on jogging then did a bit of core work.
by the time i got up the next day it was totally fucked. slightly swollen, super sore and i couldn’t really walk up or down stairs. FAAARRRKKKEN HELL

i went to the physio on wednesday and she said i had damaged either my cartilage or soft tissue under the knee.

i haven’t ridden or done anything strenuous at all for two weeks now and have been back to the physio as well. over this long weekend i have been painting. thats about it. nothing major – no riding, no lifting, just walking and normal movements.

its so sore now and i am so pissed off about it all its hard to describe upset i am. i guess its because i really feel this isn’t a little injury. its going to take a long time to mend. a very long time.

with this much pain i won’t be doing the fling. i have already sold my entry.

FARK – FARK – FARK!
back to the physio on wednesday but its looking more like i am going to have to do more than just physio.

as for riding a bike, thats probably not going to happen until next year i seriously feel right now.
FUCK

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