Congratulations to the newlyweds, Mr and Mrs Kiri…

A nice, leisurely 40km ride around Melbourne (over the Westgate!) in support of MS Society. Al, Alicia, Keith and I met up at 7am to participate. Alicia cruised through it not stopping even once. She said ‘it was easy’. I think she’s ready for a half Around the Bay this year!

Anyway some happy snaps. (Sorry about the warp… flux capacitor playing up again ).
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hope u have a g8 1 m8! big 1 this yr no??

Well, after my first taste at a time trail race last weekend Yang and I decided to suck it up and give criterium racing a go having talked about it for so long. After the 38 degree 110km YPR#17 ride the day before I wasn’t quite sure whether I’d still have energy left. I didn’t really eat properly that night as it was too hot still and I was afraid I was just going to bonk during the race. Nonetheless I shoved down 2 bananas in the morning for breakfast before packing my bike and driving to the Glenvale Crits (I wanted to save every bit of energy).

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Just a few more photos for everyone to have a look.

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What a shocker of a day it was to be outside! Nearly hit 37 degrees with the hot dry northerly wind! Conditions were so appalling that some of us called it quits at Sandringham and jumped on the train at Sandringham to get back to Norm’s place. It was also a shocker of a day with the punctures with Sandy getting two punctures - front and back - before she’d even warmed up!

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Gin: “Did you finish with the ‘mob’ today?”
Me: “Yes I did :D”

After my 9th attempt at the ‘moderate’ (slow down/fast back) North Rd ride since August last year, I finally did it. Finished with the group, averaging a whopping 37.2 km/h by the time I got back to North Rd (gawd I wish I had a lap function on my speedo to get the stats on the return leg only). Huge bunch today (90ish), messy on the way down with 3-4 abreast but then as soon as you round the roundabout everything sorts itself out. Hung to the back for death dear life but never really struggled too much, so not sure if there was a headwind or people just weren’t working as hard up the front?? Anyway who cares, I’ve had things work against me in the past but today the gods were on my side! Actually quite a large bunch finished today (40ish?) so not sure if it was a slower than normal day.

Have to work on finishing a few more of these rides now…

And oh, for once I actually ran out of gears on the HIGH side today… and who says you don’t need an 11T cog??

Just a couple of photos from the session at Melbourne Indoor Paintball. It was hard to get any good photos because it was pretty dark in there and Seb our intrepid photographer nearly got arrested for being in the safety zone.

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Well, this site was put together to keep us in touch but for the most part I think I use it just to ramble on about cycling and avoid doing any work

Anyway HP thanks for bankrolling this nonetheless…. BTW do we have a backup yet still??

Let’s hope to hear more from everyone (about ANYTHING) in the coming year…