Bikeboy's blog

What a great race , no mud and very few hills to contend with .
There was quite a strong headwind on some of the open paddock sections making it a tough slog
Not really technical but very fast and flowy and peddaling for 95% of the lap
Managed to wobble over the line around 5:38 , unofficial time , with a very dodgey tummy
Nearly got taken out by three Roos but stopped just in time as they jumped across the track .

The last quarter of the race hurt but I am happy to have finished all three 100k races I have attempted this year , Capital Punishment , the Husky and now Big Foot

I dont know about anyone else but i really enjoyed this race (50k) there was a bit of firetrail but there was also no holdups waiting for people either .
For me it was the easiest 50 k so far ....out of three , with a 2:50:11 being an hour and fifteen minutes quicker than Cap Punish a few weeks ago .

What a ride ...... This was a race i have been looking forward to for a long time as i am fortunate enough to ride Canberra trails on a very regular basis due to my work , although the ride groups usually range from one to about a dozen if i can muster up enough locals for a decent ride there ...

It was a good ride tonight in between the dust storm and the thunder storm was a clearish blue/brown sky which made the ride quite surreal .
The plan was to ride three laps , stop for a bite and do a night skyline /berm lap to finish BUT looking through the clouds of dust it was apparent that there would only be a one lap screamer ( that was my legs ) .

A belated and brief blurb on last nights Stromlo training ride . I had the opportunity to leave work a little early last night and hit the trails at about 3.45 for a exploratory / lung busting training ride on one of the newly marked trails , which there are now six . The trail which i rode on was an intermediate / Advanced ......so it scared me a little.... but just the right amount of techy stuff and plenty of flowing berms around the western side where it got a bit crowded ....

Happy days at Sparrow Hill . A great days racing was on today , a mild start with a very cold wind .
Good turn out , Although no NoBMob friends ......yet . This training may just be showing signs of working as i felt great at the start and charged off in about fith place and had the legs to hold off the masses of the furious D grade quicks for at least four k's ( i think thats when the Caffene wore off )

After consulting the riders who turned up ... um me ... it was decided unanimously that a move to Stromlo was in order
( spooky forest alone syndrome at Sparrow ) . After Saturdays OTB fest , ok i went over only once , a cruisey twilight lap was in order around a familiar track . It was cold , bloody cold , i think the official temp was four deg but the air felt like ice . The climb up was made harder by the cold , my lungs said get back to the car or we will hurt you ...ha ha didnt listen though .

What a race this was , and even caught up with a few other Nobmob riders which had to be a first for a ride / race i have posted .

Well it was cold ...ish, quiet , there was another car parked there when i started and another when i finished and i didnt get to ride the place alone after all .

With a balmy 0 degress at 8.30 in Canberra , i unpacked the car and regestered for a "social" D grade . The past few days i have been suffering the dreaded "Man Flu" or slight cold as my wife says ....