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lots of no.s equals lots of fun as the story goes222 = amount of KM’s in the saddle last week

58:14.5 = 32 [30 - 39 age category] = 83(ish) overall | this is the true time it to me to complete the woodford to glenbrook. on about the 4th-ish full corner i once again got a flat on the back this time. pressure should have been fine, but obviously wasn’t. i was running around 38 in the back

1:10:00 = 83 [30 - 39 age category] = 211 overall | this is the actual time recorded as i crossed the line the woodford to glenbrook

what a great day . the weather was just amazing, as brad said “i am just over half way up the mountains in winter and wearing a tank top”- thats how nice the weather was. we started brad, fox and richie in the 30-39 category.

i, like always, just took off and had a plan of my usual go hard for the first 3-5km to split away from the pack and get some space, settle, climb well and finish hard. as far as i could work out i would have been in the top say 15 from our group when i turned in on the 4ish hard corner. it did have quiet a lot of larger rock, when the snake bite got the back tire again. i pretty much felt it go and i was really pissed… i mean REALLY PISSED. it took way to long for me to change it. the wheel came off fine, i got the tire off fine but i had some how knotted the chain in the process so i lost a lot of time.

once i was up and running again i was pretty annoyed and kinda went into why bother mode, then i realised my cyclometre would have stopped during the down time so i could actually really quiet reasonable on its final time. so i decide to not give up and go as best i could.

i still had to be quiet conservative because the back tire pressure was still very low as my porta-pump is shit and i just could get the pressure up high at all. all downhills were taken with extreme cation. another puncture and i would have gone postal!

i did overtake a lot of people, including justin whist going up the large hill before the downhill. i could tell he was hurting but he still had a smile on his face. i did climb well, but when i hit the bottom section - the wide fire-trail - i seriously hit top gear and hammered. i was averaging a really high top speed and maxxed out at a 56.9km, still mindful of the low pressure in the back tire [so low on the climb out of the NP after the race i had to pull over again and pump it up using jason pump this time]

all in all i did pretty well i think. i had been really on the saddle quiet a lot that week but the training is show… slowly

jason came 5th in his category which i just bananas. he is a lung on legs. the ride home did show how hard he had gone, he was really spent and we dropped him at one point.it also made me realise how much i really do need to upgrade my bike. like most races, my bike is worth less than most peoples front forks alone. i do think it shows and i reckon i could/would improve my time on a better bike.

actual time

max speed

about as ugly as one can get 

tarini is now @ bike up or down. i am curious as to how well he will go.

really shitty weak. karen back the car down the driveway with aidan’s door open and just about ripped the back door fully off. this mean i had to ride to the station everyday - thats fine! loving the km’s but then i got the punji which meant she had to get the boys up and come pick me up. i hate not being self sufficient once you have taken on the “ride somewhere” challenge. Aidan clashed heads with the other G&T boy from his class. he was then picked up by karen and taken to the hospital to make sure he didn’t need stitches… which he didn’t. poor little man. then last night after almost two weeks of waiting the brake pads came from ebay/disco brakes. i was so excited. it meant all good with riding on the weekend but when i picked up the parcel off the front deck i was a little suss. it did feel too heavy for 2 brake pads. as it turns out i now have 4 x avid juicy pads and 4 x ORO pads. no fucken good for my shimano M465’s! FFS so i just got back from clarence street cycles and i now have a pair of pads for the bike. $29.95 later. i better have a good ride this race. 

pat @ work has a lomo - i have a tarini bike

this is the result of the 4 of us meeting up 

i can ride 85km for 3hrs+ on tires that are so old they are seriously fraying all around the edging as well as holes with tubes bulging out of the side wall over freeways with wood / tire / rock / building material / chairs / glass and not get a flat.

but i don’t seem to be able to ride just 10km to the station on a set of tires that are kevlar beaded and cost around $50 bucks a rim. FFS.

see pic above. thats what happened about 700m from the station yesterday.