Out and up on my own on the Stooge in the dark tonight. Bad headspace so took it out on a ride, which improved it markedly. Climb up through Vic, straight into Skidder - everything is still so wet, and took a bit of a breather here. Some riders showed up and so I headed off up the gutser, around and up to the Worm. Hit the Traverse and trundled on around this, not really knowing how far I might go, not really knowing how much I could be bothered with. Got to the end and up onto Vernon and parked up again, puzzling and deciding. Checked MMR and found I'd only travelled 5 kms and so thought 10 return isnt enough and headed off around Vernon, bombing nicely all the way down to Rapaki-top.
Turned around and headed back up Vernon, climbing pretty nicely. Back onto the Traverse, cruising smooth with a good (cold!) tailwind, bombing the bomby bits, tho careful careful on the greasy rock before the pond. Around into Vic, semi-cased the first jump and then down the rabbit paddock, into the rocks, and gums, and flow and smooth, alll the way down (through the 'closed' bit) and out to the gate. Headed here back up to the Skidder and took the Latter's Spur track down, fun easy rolling, then took the lower exit, having to walk up the steps on Kill-your-mum-with-a-brick Alley then out above the dogpark, over the road, through the carpark and into the singletrack for a slightly-less-greasy-than-Sunday greasy ride down. The oaks are still a total sodden mess, so gingerly sidled through there, then all the way out down to H'Ell, staying on it to the very last, down the steps, down the road, and around back up home.
Nice 13.5 km blat with 440 m climbed.
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