Quick lap from Nelson's. Another hot day, and he's recovering from a bad gastro thing. He was on his XC whippetmachine due to a broken nipple on the GT. We headed up his street, down the alleyway, along Centaurus, and up Major Aitken, figuring we might get some shade up here, which we did. Up to the dirt, I was feeling pretty good, but even recovering from the bott he had more gain on me on the whippet. Up the gravel, hottest section just before the gate below the pylons, with a smidgen of breeze kicking in beyond this. The grass is dry up further, really dry. Up the singletrack and over the fence. Bit of a rest here, and decided where to go. Dropped down the new line towards Old Skool, checking out whether it'd been weed-whacked or not. It had, and that whacked grass was slippery. We headed back up the 4wd track and on up the rest of the Huntsbury gravel to the Summit Rd. Nearly a breeze up here, to cool on, and then we headed into the Traverse, me getting the lead on a slower old guy that Nelson got stuck behind.
Into the fun descent, my rear tire still too hard from yesterday's pumping onto the rim. But a good blast down here, jumping the jumpies, and bailing up on the new final gap-jump to check it out. I walked back up further and re-rode it, cleaning it nicely. Not so bad at all. Next, down the paddock and through the upper section we'd already ridden. Over the stile and on down the techy descents. Unfortunately, a couple of these sections hadn't been whacked. We took the second one that wasn't, and it was okay. Into the lower drops and then into the off-camber zigs and zags, lots of overgrowth on these making it quite slow going.
Now it was into the Old Skool proper. Nice flowy fast fun. I was quite coasty, not pushing it too hard pedal-wise, on account of tiredness and heat. Blitzed out the bottom and then street time back to Nelson's.
Got home dead on 12 noon, and we headed for Lyttelton to catch the ferry to Diamond Harbour. Had a lovely refreshing swim off the wharf as soon as we got over there. Absolutely perfect. Then walked around the Clifftop walk, and up to a shady spot near a band playing and had a couple of nice beers, followed by a swim at the end while we waited for the ferry again.
A baking 12.34 kms, with only 475 m climbed.
Into the fun descent, my rear tire still too hard from yesterday's pumping onto the rim. But a good blast down here, jumping the jumpies, and bailing up on the new final gap-jump to check it out. I walked back up further and re-rode it, cleaning it nicely. Not so bad at all. Next, down the paddock and through the upper section we'd already ridden. Over the stile and on down the techy descents. Unfortunately, a couple of these sections hadn't been whacked. We took the second one that wasn't, and it was okay. Into the lower drops and then into the off-camber zigs and zags, lots of overgrowth on these making it quite slow going.
Now it was into the Old Skool proper. Nice flowy fast fun. I was quite coasty, not pushing it too hard pedal-wise, on account of tiredness and heat. Blitzed out the bottom and then street time back to Nelson's.
Got home dead on 12 noon, and we headed for Lyttelton to catch the ferry to Diamond Harbour. Had a lovely refreshing swim off the wharf as soon as we got over there. Absolutely perfect. Then walked around the Clifftop walk, and up to a shady spot near a band playing and had a couple of nice beers, followed by a swim at the end while we waited for the ferry again.
A baking 12.34 kms, with only 475 m climbed.
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