Dreary wet day, left it til later in the day in case it got better, but it didn't so I donned wet-weathers and dropped down Longhurst on the Troll, across the hill thru pizzly rain, via: Derrynane, Kidson, Whisby, Macmillan, Lady Polson and down Bengal. Onto the (Uni?) bike route to and thru Pioneer Park, and pretty much entirely out of the drizzle. Hard left onto Sparks Rd, booking out this towards Halswell, taking the special bike crossing towards the end and into the 'new' suburbs, through a cool wetland then realised at the model railway I was heading to the wrong part of Halswell, turned around and took the bikeways and backways back to Sparks, shops, then straight line to the Quarry. Finally got rid of the jacket and leggings here and the knuckled into the climb.
Stayed on top of the gear all the way up the seal, quite steep. Then at the stile/gate, hung a right and cleaned my way up the Low Road, which was surprisingly dry. Onto the main drag at the level bit, brief walk above here then rode the rest to the gate. Over Siberia, over the stile and into the next climb, pedalling a surprising amount but finally relenting and walked a bunch til it levelled off. Rode a bit, walked a bit, rode a bit, walked a nother steep, rode briefly then walked the last long steep. Managed to get back on near the top and ride out the last 100 m or so to the Summit Rd.
Mizzle and drist picking up again I put the jacket back on for the cruise round the Summit. Passed by one car, before a nice coasting bomb down to the Kiwi. Across Dyers here and up the next section of Summit Rd to the top of Vic. Into the 4wd track descent, catching some pretty mighty speed down into the skidder site, and then out onto the road for a nice fast liquid descent down to home.
Damp 22.5 KMs with 550 odd m climbed
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