what a day :(

Ok so today drove up to Awaba to ride.. all the way from sydney....

My first hint it was going to be a bad day should have come from the fact that i was already feeling ill with a stomach bug of sorts.... but i thought hell lets push on and get up there and see how things go

anyway after cruising through the 1st 2km or so with cc rider and friend i started to keel over in pain - i took a bit of a break hoping my stomach would settle out, i had to bite the bullet and keep going (you woulda thought i would have realised something isn't right by now..)

anyway about another 500m later something was going on with the chain and pedal's - couldn't quite put my finger on it but about 2 turns later the chain let go...just great....so whilst repairing it found that the very next link i tried to reconnect was also buckled so it wouldn't hold, had to reconnect it again - thats 4 llinks gone and to make matters worse two of the pedal teeth had been torn off (you would think by now its a good time to ride back to the carpark)

anyway now stuck with a limited gear range and having to be careful shifting... we pushed on - unfortunately to my detriment as i never realised how badly not having the right gears can affect speed and stamina as well as flow through the track

now at the last fork for the blue run i decided to break off from cc and limp back to the carpark as i could feel the chain wasn't going to hold out....needless to say halfway back to the carpark - i hear the distinct sound of an outer chainlink popping off, look down at my chain and sure enough there is the kinked chain piece... and there we had another problem - no spare links - chain to short - time to walk...

so all in all a pretty good day....not