Mint ride tonight. I started off slow but warmed up pretty good by the end.
Met at Slumnervale and moseyed up the Captain. Usual gasping for air and my legs just had nothing in them. Seemed unable to put any power down. I put it down to lack of sleep and massage yesterday and insufficient nutrition through the day, but maybe it's just 'getting old' or some weird pre-diabetes bollocks. Anyway, moseyed up, and was starting to get a bit more groove towards the top, tho still walked a tiny bit before that last sprung swing gate.
Into the Godley, cleaned a surprising amount of the early-stage rocks. I never stopped moving and at least one foot was always clipped in, such were the dabbages that propelled me through the few tech spots that I blew out on. It got easier towards the high point, where we took a brief rest:
and then we blazed on down the blastzone, speed and lack of traction our friends. At the squirrelly swoopy bit towards the bottom, we stopped and Nelson set up his phone to film.
(overlooking Taylor's)
Then we rode back up the trail a bit and dropped back in, whooshing past the camera and swooping back and forth below. I bombed out the bottom and Nelson turned back to collect his gear.
At Livingston, headed out around the CraterRim/360 track, nice bit of tech to start, then steeeeep bastard steps and a couple of hairpins that Nelson cleaned and I didnt. Brief respite at the top:
before dropping down to the stile, over, and on down. A few tech-steps and lots of nice rolling, droppy, interesting trail to enjoy, with spectacular views and stunning light out across the harbour and heads.
Across Breeze Col to Breeze Bay track, climbing on the pea-gravel, up, up, up
(me looking stuffed, as usual)
and around,then nice roll around to the stile with a hawk cruising the currents above us. Around to the Lookout bunker where Nelson did the wee gap jump a couple of times, and then into the tight narrow long-grass sheeptrack around above the road back towards Breeze Col.
Awesome in this direction with the tightness easier to handle. Nice blast down to the col and straight into the Snake.
Shitty gravel on the first bit, but once into the Anaconda proper we were going a nice pace. Not quite as fast as last time, but still pretty quick, and it was nice not being dropped by Nelson and also not being too far back through the whole tail section.
Up the road and into the Sumnervale Track, climbing up steeply (cleaned it all) to the deer fence which Nelson rode the whole length of, but tired legs as usual got the better of me - making me walk maybe 50 m. Up the gravel Scarborough track to the parasailer launch spot and around and back up onto Godley. Awesome blast down this, my chain coming off about half way down the techy-est rock sections towards the end, but I kept my flow and pace and made it all the way through to the end.
Finally, the blast down Captain Thomas. Very fine it was. Cleaned everything bar the usual climb, and had lots of fun doing so, tight on Nelson's tail the whole way too.
A rather respectable 19.3 kms, with 765 m climbed.
Met at Slumnervale and moseyed up the Captain. Usual gasping for air and my legs just had nothing in them. Seemed unable to put any power down. I put it down to lack of sleep and massage yesterday and insufficient nutrition through the day, but maybe it's just 'getting old' or some weird pre-diabetes bollocks. Anyway, moseyed up, and was starting to get a bit more groove towards the top, tho still walked a tiny bit before that last sprung swing gate.
Into the Godley, cleaned a surprising amount of the early-stage rocks. I never stopped moving and at least one foot was always clipped in, such were the dabbages that propelled me through the few tech spots that I blew out on. It got easier towards the high point, where we took a brief rest:
(overlooking Taylor's)
At Livingston, headed out around the CraterRim/360 track, nice bit of tech to start, then steeeeep bastard steps and a couple of hairpins that Nelson cleaned and I didnt. Brief respite at the top:
Across Breeze Col to Breeze Bay track, climbing on the pea-gravel, up, up, up
(me looking stuffed, as usual)
Shitty gravel on the first bit, but once into the Anaconda proper we were going a nice pace. Not quite as fast as last time, but still pretty quick, and it was nice not being dropped by Nelson and also not being too far back through the whole tail section.
Up the road and into the Sumnervale Track, climbing up steeply (cleaned it all) to the deer fence which Nelson rode the whole length of, but tired legs as usual got the better of me - making me walk maybe 50 m. Up the gravel Scarborough track to the parasailer launch spot and around and back up onto Godley. Awesome blast down this, my chain coming off about half way down the techy-est rock sections towards the end, but I kept my flow and pace and made it all the way through to the end.
Finally, the blast down Captain Thomas. Very fine it was. Cleaned everything bar the usual climb, and had lots of fun doing so, tight on Nelson's tail the whole way too.
A rather respectable 19.3 kms, with 765 m climbed.
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