Had to pick up Ben from the ferry at 7.45, so I took the opportunity to get a quick ride in Urumau. Got home from work and ended up lying on the couch for a bit, then thought, "nah I just gotta do it," so loaded up, jumped in car and headed down. Realised on Centaurus Rd that I'd left my helmet behind, back up the hill, time seriously getting tight.
Parked up the ridiculously difficult to access Foster Tce and headed up the steps and zig zags for the heinously steep climb up into the zone. Grunting and gasping up to the new little looper loop then across the original looper entrance to the forest. Wind was an absolute gale on the ridge and trees on that norwest facing face. Not feeling overly confident tonight for some reason, so took the Stormer easier route (missed the steep drops) down and followed on down, lovely loose loam and pine needles, cool rocks and roots. Good blast, then into Grommies, bypassed all the big hoopy jumps, and rode into the log drop but pulled up and bypassed. Also missed the cool droppy rock sections at the very bottom.
Into the climb, grovel grovel. At the higher Zombie crossing came up upon a guy stopped. Headphones in, listening to a podcast, so didnt hear me at first. Brief chat and he rode on ahead, slightly faster but not much, so followed him up and across traverse til he stopped at the main meeting spot.
Second lap, I just climbed up, looper across and into Sunnyside dropping down quickly, then left on the traverse track down to the exit trail (called Whakatuwhera, apparently).
Seemingly tiny 3.5 kms, a quick and steep 250m climbed
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