Pretty quick one tonight... Met Nelsie at McCormacks Bay, and we headed up the valley. Grunter always gets my breathing badly, so stopped at first opportunity to puff some anti-asthma, and we managed to scrounge a few blackberries too. On up the valley, scoffing on more blackberries a couple of times a bit further up, then into the hairpins, me dying on a two. Up the road, and then up the reserve to the bath and over the fence.
Up through Britten for a well earned rest at the top, before heading around the top of it, and over the stile and up Broadleaf to the towers. STraight into the descent, boff boff boff, super quick and super smooth with a bit of a tail wind the whole way. The corners were railing! Meandered into Greenwood and the bombed it too, both on record times for the descents, methinks. I slowed a bit on the traverse to Gloomy Gulch, but beyond this we bombed. Nelson flatted jumping off the jump to flat, so stopped for a good while while he fixed that. Then off again, fresh and fast, stayed on his tail til the pumpy bit into the valley and so he'd dropped me for my usual favourite bit before the two rocky ups.
Across Evans, and into Godley. Cleaned it up to the first break then bollocksed a few rocks then less so further along, even cleaning something Nelson bollocksed. Good go most of the way til i crapped out on the rocks before the first boardwalky thing. Brief break at the usual ridgetop,
and then we were off again, fanging down the way to Livingston, some of the fastest ever we reckoned. Good climb from here, and then fastness down to Breeze.
Into the 'Conda, cruising to start then nailing it lower down. Nelson got the drop on me on the 'Tail and was rolling across the paddock at the end while I was still above the houses.
Finally, ugh, the grind up the road. Luckily I'd brought my flashies, cos she was pretty dim light (heavy nor'west cloud cover). Made it to the top though, and we headed into Nicholson Park, dropping down the steepest lines (over rocks and roots) and into the top of the Flowers, cleaning all the switchbacks with our switchback technique (except the last one for me), and then flying down the narrow alleyway to Whitewash Head Rd, down here, jumpy jumpy flow to the Esplanade and a nice cruise along this before the increasingly fast slipstream back through Redcliffs and around to the car.
Up through Britten for a well earned rest at the top, before heading around the top of it, and over the stile and up Broadleaf to the towers. STraight into the descent, boff boff boff, super quick and super smooth with a bit of a tail wind the whole way. The corners were railing! Meandered into Greenwood and the bombed it too, both on record times for the descents, methinks. I slowed a bit on the traverse to Gloomy Gulch, but beyond this we bombed. Nelson flatted jumping off the jump to flat, so stopped for a good while while he fixed that. Then off again, fresh and fast, stayed on his tail til the pumpy bit into the valley and so he'd dropped me for my usual favourite bit before the two rocky ups.
Across Evans, and into Godley. Cleaned it up to the first break then bollocksed a few rocks then less so further along, even cleaning something Nelson bollocksed. Good go most of the way til i crapped out on the rocks before the first boardwalky thing. Brief break at the usual ridgetop,
and then we were off again, fanging down the way to Livingston, some of the fastest ever we reckoned. Good climb from here, and then fastness down to Breeze.
Into the 'Conda, cruising to start then nailing it lower down. Nelson got the drop on me on the 'Tail and was rolling across the paddock at the end while I was still above the houses.
Finally, ugh, the grind up the road. Luckily I'd brought my flashies, cos she was pretty dim light (heavy nor'west cloud cover). Made it to the top though, and we headed into Nicholson Park, dropping down the steepest lines (over rocks and roots) and into the top of the Flowers, cleaning all the switchbacks with our switchback technique (except the last one for me), and then flying down the narrow alleyway to Whitewash Head Rd, down here, jumpy jumpy flow to the Esplanade and a nice cruise along this before the increasingly fast slipstream back through Redcliffs and around to the car.
A tiny smidge under both 24kms and 900m climbed
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