Bikeboy's blog

Bermagui MTB park was tonights destination and what a great little trail . Its just over 6.5 k's and it is almost 100% single track a little bit techy and if you aint puffin like and old bugger you aren't trying . There are five good honest climbs which , for someone who did 22.5 k's at Sparrow last night , just about stopped me in my tracks as my little legs hurt like hell . Luckily for me the rain came and made the descision to do more laps on hold until tomorrow morning , when hopefully i will manage to get two laps in before i have to bugger off to work

What can i say ....Sparrow Hill just under two hours to do two laps of the hybrid blue and red lap .
22.50 k's of super smooth single track What a blast . I was the only person in the forrest tonight but it didnt matter i went as hard as my body would go and Damn that is fun ....Bobsled what a hoot .. i could have kept going all night but the Mont coffee van wasn't there and my tummy got a tad hungry too

Now for Bermagui tomorrow night ....

I also managed to get to Majura last night for about an hour and a half of some pretty cool trails , quite literally , it was getting bloody cold by the end of the ride but it must have taken an hour to wipe the stupid grin from my face and i just wanted to ride some more but my stomach didnt agree so back to my motel for some kangaroo for dinner yum !!!!.

What a week Sparrow Hill two hours for both Monday and Tuesday nights an Hour at Wagga's Parmigana park and Majura Pines last night for a total ride time of over six hours and 70 ks of The Sweetest single track around

Well once again i had a spare two hours to kill , and what better way to do it than at Sparrow hill AGAIN !!! This time i had the whole forest to myself .....not really lonely ....no friends ....bad deodorant .....just the thought of my poor wife at home with three kids and nobody to help .....

well once again i was on my own , well apart from the Mont track builder , but it was pretty thin on the ground for my Nobmob friends , i suppose a few of you had a pretty good excuse from not turning up this time , some little ride up north ....pretty soft really ....hmmm . We took of at about 6.30 with lights ablazing and scaring roos all over the place ...oh yeah we were at Sparrow hill , and it was bloody cold too shorts and long sleved merino , jersey and a long sleved jacket to keep me warm .

This was my worst race ever . I started great , in fourth into the single track and went down hill from there , it was very cold with a temp of 7 deg but an App temp of 0.6 and a bloody cold westerly wind at 35-40 k with icy rain too .
This was also the easiest of the Stromlo trails with not much techy stuff or climing , not even half way up the mountain .

Crap performance , had nothing .....and dont want to talk about it ....untill tomorrow

This ride turned out to be a great ride for training on long hilly fireroads as i got .... a little lost . i dont know how but i ended up next to the railway line at one point and with the pioneer spirit ....ok , with luck i found a fireroad through the guts of the place which had a huge hill that went forever and eventually rejoined the trail network and i continued on my merry way . And yes the Kangaroos were my only company untill i got back to the carpark , it was pretty full for a monday night and most there were just touching up , like me , on their Mont training .

But i must say a little dissapointed that no Nobmobbers made the effort to attend with me ...... i did give at least 24 hours notice of this ride AND i now know a few of you .....( perhaps my very average sense of humour hmm ) anyway feeling pumped i decided to give my previous PB a nudge of the standard green XC course ( 41 minutes ....and it was 35 deg )
With legs that remembered the pain of riding through the mud at the Sydney 24 ...um 14.5 i mean , i took off with only a few others on track ! This place is the polar opposite of Del Rio with powdered dusty trails in all directions .