Sunday expected to be wet so planned my ride for Saturday afternoon. Morning dawned wet, but that soon cleared, to no detriment to the trails. Drove to Monsieur deSpa's after 1 and we headed for Kennedy's, around the roadways (getting funny looks for not turning into Worsley's Rd). Cashmere Rd and then into the Quarry Park, heading up to C2. Download, and up. Good climb, though I was feeling really unfit. Gasping for air a lot, and generally feeling wrong. Put it down to lack of good sleep and nutrition. Made pace overtaking a couple of older guys, and another solo guy, and in Siberia caught up to a fellow plus-sized tire guy, and the 6 of us all headed up the steeperer Kennedy's track together, with Paul and me kinda gapping them but not. By the time we got to the really steeperer bit my cock had gone completely numb, so I had to stop to get blood back into it, so the others all caught and overtook me, with Paul leading out the top. I knuckled in behind the solo guy (behind the two older guys) and meandered on up, feeling slow when such slow people could beat me.
Onto the road and plussizedtire guy rode with us around to Worsley's, where we peeled up into the Nun. Excellent blast down this keeping good flow all the way to the bottom.
Then up the road to Vic Park, avoiding the Thomsons, spotting some gloves on the road, which Paul picked up. There was a couple at the top "these your gloves?" "nup", "alrighty". And off we went around the Traverse. Nice bomb around except for the climby bits, and then we bumped into a workmate (Jenny) halfway around. While talking to her the couple from the top turned up saying that a guy had come up asking about the gloves, so they'd chased us (above on the road, then back along the singletrack towards us) cos they'd said they'd put them somewhere for him. Here I realised it was 4 o'clock and I was supposed to be home at 4, so now I was in trouble, so off we headed. Good run the rest of the way round and then excellent descent down the ridge singletrack, nice pops on the jumps, and then out the landing strip to the new track Nelson had found on Tuesday night.
Into this and down, all the steeper bits are so nice, and cool rock features, and then after the gate it gets better, with one really steep drop (with good roll out), then around and across, avoiding all the old 4wd zigzags... NICE. Then into the recent entry to Old Skool, and with the muscle memory fresh from 4 times on Tuesday, I absolutely honked down the faster flowier bits, while cruising mellow on the slower bits...
Out the bottom and a haul across town back to Paul's, into the car, and was home by 4.45 - straight into the dough making for pizza night, not tooo much trouble to be had. (phew).
Big loop, 32 kms, with 754 m climbed.
Onto the road and plussizedtire guy rode with us around to Worsley's, where we peeled up into the Nun. Excellent blast down this keeping good flow all the way to the bottom.
Then up the road to Vic Park, avoiding the Thomsons, spotting some gloves on the road, which Paul picked up. There was a couple at the top "these your gloves?" "nup", "alrighty". And off we went around the Traverse. Nice bomb around except for the climby bits, and then we bumped into a workmate (Jenny) halfway around. While talking to her the couple from the top turned up saying that a guy had come up asking about the gloves, so they'd chased us (above on the road, then back along the singletrack towards us) cos they'd said they'd put them somewhere for him. Here I realised it was 4 o'clock and I was supposed to be home at 4, so now I was in trouble, so off we headed. Good run the rest of the way round and then excellent descent down the ridge singletrack, nice pops on the jumps, and then out the landing strip to the new track Nelson had found on Tuesday night.
Into this and down, all the steeper bits are so nice, and cool rock features, and then after the gate it gets better, with one really steep drop (with good roll out), then around and across, avoiding all the old 4wd zigzags... NICE. Then into the recent entry to Old Skool, and with the muscle memory fresh from 4 times on Tuesday, I absolutely honked down the faster flowier bits, while cruising mellow on the slower bits...
Out the bottom and a haul across town back to Paul's, into the car, and was home by 4.45 - straight into the dough making for pizza night, not tooo much trouble to be had. (phew).
Big loop, 32 kms, with 754 m climbed.
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