Up the hill in the crack of dawn, for a (on the map) U shaped there and back again.
Clamber clamber, usual route, up the road, 19th, Skidder, and grunter, Brakefree, then Worm... The sun was just up, skimming behind and above the hills as I climbed. Onto the Traverse into it, cruising on an empty stomach (practicing 16:8 intermittent fasting now). Met 3 teens oncoming, then a runner, and that was pretty much it.
Top of Fourpause/HuntsDH I paused before dropping in for a storming sesh, catching the first jump good, second jump kicked my tail up badly, then third and fourth both perfect. On down the ridge on the singletrack, peeling across through the cattlestop (where we used to climb over) and then started explorations for the Rocky Ridge track entrance, meandering through tussocks and rocks, finding it, sorta following it then climbing on it's zig zag up the back of the knoll. Took a pic back at Vic Park from here and one down the way I was to ride.
Tech rocks, down this then onto the DH again, jump, not-jump, jump, cop and dog, through the cattlestop and new line, rock jump, wooden jump, back on mainline then, huh, what's this? short cut, avoiding a couple jumps then into the curves and jumps down down, spotting a couple of climbing riders, then down finishing on the final drop. A few people down here on their way up the main drag. I headed over to the new climber Nelson and me are instigating, other tire treads in evidence. Granny climb, up under pylons and then zig and zag in tussocks up onto main DH, then through c'stop and across to the farmtrack climb and up onto the main singletrack to finish up to the landingstrip and final climb, catching the slower of the two riders I'd seen before.
Into the Traverse, sun behind me, great bomb around, feeling plenty of power all the way. Into the Vic Pines and across, jump, jump, bypass see-saw and first curves of Brake Free then out to Rabbit paddock, tight right after the cattlestop to top of Gum's Pines, dropping down 'new' line then the rest of the way the usual, carrying excellent speed all the way through. Out the bottom, out to 19th, down road, easy going cruise coast, then into 235, bomb bomb, muck muck, climbing, right, left, behind houses final hoon, and home.
Glorious day, 13.7 kms ridden, 495 m altituded.
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