Gave Norton Summit another crack yesterday.
Dragged my 85kg arse up the mountain. Took a long time (30 minutes) compared to others but I still did it!!!
Tried to pedal smoothly and definitely did better than Saturday.
Happy with my effort but still can improve!
I got back into riding last Tuesday when I took a 40km ride along the beach from Glenelg to Henley Beach.
My cousin has been pushing me to join him in a ride up to Norton Summit which he does weekly. This is in the Adelaide Hills and is pretty steep (probably not in your books). I thought that I’d train a little more before attempting this ride.
On Saturday though, I thought I’d try the ride alone as my cousin wasn’t free. It sucked! I sucked!
I needed to stop 4-5 times in this 6-7km ride. In the end, I wasn’t sure how far I had left to go and as far as I could see, it was still uphill. I was weak mentally – I turned around and went home … dejected.
I then drove up to the summit the next day and found that I had almost reached the top. Only about 1km to go!
I vow to conquer that ride soon. This ride is probably easy for you veterans but I need more training!!!
What pi$$ed me off even more were the bogan d!ckheads I encountered on the way to the foot of the hill. One guy drove in an old Commodore (that says it all) past yelling and waving his arms out the window.
Second incident was an @r$ehole who drove past me in an older Commodore and spat out the window. He then stopped at the next lights and I pulled up about 5 metres in front of him. I then heard him spit out the window again, which I assume was at me. Thinking about it, having a bike, wearing bike shoes and riding alone left me in no condition to retaliate. I really wanted to give him a piece of my mind – and my fist!
Still pi$$ed off about that incident.
Anything like that happen to you guys?
As most of you have probably heard, we’ve finally bought a place of our own in Adelaide. It took about 6 months of looking and frustration before we finally obtained this property.
Frustration because I hate paying rent, which is in effect paying for other people’s kids’ school fees! The rent is going to go up in mid-January as well.
Ash trusted me to sign on the dotted line even though she had only seen photos of the place. She saw it about a month ago and luckily she’s happy with it!!! Otherwise, I physically wouldn’t be able to have any kids, let alone any school fees to pay for!
Invitation is open for you guys to crash our place whenever you’re visiting beautiful Adelaide…
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