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Great fun. Great intro to meeting the wider mtb community. Mark & I tried to find a 3rd team member, but only started with 2. Had a little spill on the 4th lap due to finger strength giving way. Yes- you read that correctly. Changing gears & braking became quite hard during the 4th lap. Will definitely sign up for more future events.

Finally after a few attempts I finished a 100 klm enduro even in training I hadn't done more than 75 klm so to finish 110 klm was a great feeling, I know it was much slower than most of you guys but I just wanted to finish so tried to keep heart rate around 80% and enjoy the trails which were great, thank you hue for a great event will do it again next year hopefully quicker and now I know the track a bit better I can hammer the single track a bit harder . Now back to training for Dirtworks 100 next may

I had 5 hours from 10am to 3pm to get to Emu Heights (from Frenchs Forest), ride Nepean River to Yellowmundee, do a lap and get back to pick up my kid from Preschool. I figured 1hr our, 3hrs to do the trails and a lap and 1 hr back.

I lost 20 minutes in a M7 smash where traffic was stopped and only 1 lane open. Thus would have to cut back the Yellowmundee lap.

I found a spot to park at beginning of Nepean ride amongst 20 odd bong bottles, Maccas rubbish. It was 33 degrees and 11:30am.

Managed to complete a spin class tonight without any protest from the shoulder at all... not bad for six weeks after the collarbone break at Kiwarrak. Still not strong enough to ride a real bike, but that will come.

Keeping the core locked was hard and I had to soft-pedal some of the "sprints" on account of no fitness, but it was better than the didaster i was expecting after gaining 3kg after 6 weeks of no riding.

Time to start planning for the Mont!

It was my first race so started training in August putting lots of hours in; I was hoping to get 3 hours so really stoked coming in at 2.53. I didn't know what to expect so was a bit apprehensive. but really enjoyed the race. Got my wife to make me a low fat high carb banana bread (she's in the food game) for my pre race sustenance and it was gold! No stitches or nothing and felt comfortably full and charged for the race. May need to get her to sell it there next year!!!!

First ride after breaking the collarbone. Was just a short ride mainly on the footpath from home to the gym to do some leg work and try to keep the core strength up while off the bike. But I couldn't help myself, and took a couple of little bush trail short cuts.

With a course designed by Jason English this was always going to be a tough race. I entered when it was part of the CycleNation series and my brother was planning on coming down from Queensland so when it got rescheduled we decided to still do the race.
With the Fling last week I pulled up reasonably well and felt really good on Monday's recovery ride. The 60mm of rain two days before the race had me changing to new pads and applying the wet lube.

Best race of the year for me...with Rory, Tony and Michael...bigggest thing NO CRAMPS!

Overall another well run event by Wild Horizons. I guess the support from the Bundanoon village makes it seem special.
Suffered badly with cramps in this race last year so was hopping for a trouble free race and an hours improvement for a finish time around 5:30. Had taken a different training approach in the lead up so was also keen to see how that worked out on the day.

Hoping for sub 3 hours but not unhappy with the result.

A messy start with the self seeding very curious and I blew too much energy trying to find a good wheel. When things settled down I had a brilliant run sitting on the wheel of some strong riders.

The Gu stage started well and I was enjoying being on the bike. Very pleased that I was out cornering and descending other riders, and enjoyed the single track sections. This is a new experience for me (that is the out descending part, not the enjoying part).