Lurgy... and a crash, yeah!

blah, have had a dreaded lurgy for this past week or more. coughing like a coughing thing... last two days off work. Poor wee O has it too. greeeen goob oozing from his wee nose, and coughing little coughs.

stupidly, perhaps, went for a ride on tuesday night, me and the posse drove to Taylors, rode UP the Anaconda, then out Godley Head, then over and back down the snake. beautiful run, i still kicked all their asses even tho i was sick. heh heh... i crashed, first time in ages, and it was great. i've got a beautiful swirly multifacetted scrape/graze on my hip. dunno quite what did it, i think it was my handlebars. was screaming down the trail, into this big banked berm, and the front wheel just drifted out, the packed soil was very slightly damp on top and so slightly greasy, i began to lose control, couldnt keep it together, dabbed, tumbled... not really sure what happened. left some awesome marks on the trail, the tire tread skid marks, the foot scrape, the bit where my pedals dug in... first crash in a lonnnng time, so, twas good. i'd been getting faster and more loose for the last few months, and finally i hit the edge and so now i can step back from it and work my way back up to it again...

well...all of june gone then

and now we're in july. Otis is just about a year old.

rode last night. rapaki, single track to kiwi, up track from there a bit, then back down, and down below dyers, up into vic, down dazzas and out down into bowenvale. nice spin. needed. cooooool fog rolling over the hill like a waterfall, very spectacular.

blah blah blah

sHamner...

went to Hanmer for weekend... was good. rained heaps. Al and me went biking on saturday. trails were greeaasy. he showed me a bunch of tracks there's no way i would have found myself. fantastico!

soaked in the pools 3 times. lovely. O enjoyed himself, splashy splashy splashy...

buried T's grandfather yesterday. not the saddest of affairs, but when they played the last post, (on account of him being an old soldier) things got pretty teary. bunch of old soldiers there lined up and put Anzac poppies on the coffin. i was roped into pallbearing. O and Ph were both very well behaved throughout.

Better get on with this then...

Well, may as well start somewhere. Trouble is, i'm at work, and probably shouldnt actually be doing this.

rode last night, port hills, greeeaaasy, hit by waves of drizzle a few times. i was concerned my light wouldnt like the wet, but it seemed to deal pretty good. rocks and the rubber matting on the trails were diabolical. the rubber matting has a tendency to steer you in a way that is quite disconcerting... anyway, up rapaki, round the summit, pete and me did the single track whilst the others cruised on the road for the first bit. heading down through vic park pete crashed on the rocky bit before the gums. it was getting wetter and wetter as we got lower, another drizzle shower rolling in. then was dry when we were in the bottom of bowenvale. met some other riders heading down there...

working a bit late tonight. off to Hanmer for weekend. yippee.

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