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35 Degree heat made this race HARD! I decided to do a warm up lap and I thought I wouldn't be able to do another half way through. At the last minute I decided to go for the race and I'm glad I did. Due to the heat it was decided to drop the lap count. I can't say I gave it everything I had but towards the end my water finished and I really started to over heat, the last pinch was crazy hot - couldn't even see through the sweat. I had finished almost 3 litres in less than 2 laps.

This was destined to be a great days riding and Ourimbah didn't disappoint, despite the dodgy weather and cold start. The work that has been done to the track is substantial since I last rode here, this track just gets better and better. What is surprising is it's even better after some rain as we found out later. I finally managed to get team Mantoast together, with Craig and Gary joining up.

As I broke a couple of ribs in the Angry Doctor I hadn't been able to train as much as I wanted for the full fling so decided to give the half fling a go.

With everyone off to the CORC24 this weekend I thought I would take myself on a solo explore around the area and check out some new (to me) tracks. This was the first proper ride I have done since I broke my ribs in the Angry Doctor so I was anxious to find out how I would go. The idea was to ride from my place to Heath Track, up Quary track, ridgetop track and over the Mona Vale road and around the back of the show ground onto the single track to the start of Wildflower garden and follow that (sort of) through Garden Gully to Ryland and then Sandy Trail.

flipping heck

that was hard ( ok more than two words but I'm still tripping)

What a day eh?

Considering I was happy to finish at all I shocked myself and came in at 6:33, which I am very happy with. I had 2 breakdowns and a bad crap just after walking through the water so I reckon I could have knocked 15 minutes off that (perhaps, it was still pretty hard going). I had the pleasure of riding most of the second 50 with Rob who managed to keep my from fully doing myself in, only to go and tackle those ridiculous rock climbs he had be practising a few weekend before, great stuff.