Missed the ride with the boys this morning but Nelson and me managed to get out for a worthy loop this afternoon. He turned up at mine about 4 and we headed up the road. Usual climbing, around 19th over to skidder and into the gruntings. Feeling pretty good, a week's rest after the Paparoa, muscle memory kicked in and there was plenty of power there. Up through Brakefree and then onto Worm across to the Traverse.
Normal kinda cruise around the Traverse, I led for a start, then Nelson took the lead on the second half. Dropped straight into the Huntsbury DH, dropping down nicely, quite rough up top now, and dusty(!). Jumps pretty good, with number 3 my favourite, then the usual down beside the landing strip where you lose all your momentum for a bit. Dropping down to Old Skool, nice rough narrow lines (had me thinking how honed and wide and smooth the Paparoa was). Into Ali-Express, new transverse section bypassing the techyrockdrop. Then some other new sections lower down, nice!
Into Old Skool proper, we were chasing (and catching) an awkward looking dude on an ebike (he just had no 'flow'). At what used to be the stile we stopped and let him get ahead a ways before dropping in for the final blast ourselves. Awesome blitz down here and then straight into the climb up the valley. Still feeling pretty good, but tireder.
K2 turned up and still felt okay, tho usual breather just before the sidle. Up around the 23footer, and on up. up. up. Around the Rad^sick corner and dropped into that fun wee steep, then back up around the corner again through skidder over to lower gums descender out to 19th, below the road, back onto the road at Tawhairanui then coasting coasting and into 235 for a blitzy, then greasy roll through. Jump landing still disgusting so couldn't do it, and then across all the way down to Harry Ell. Short carry up to Vic Park Drive again and boom, home.
11.72 kms with a tiny smidge under 500m climbed.
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