Finally I attended the St Kilda Crits.

Norm and I (and Saskia) stayed at Mel and Lachy's on Saturday night.

Firstly I must divert and mention that Lachlan Wainright is an awesome cook and we ate very very moreish lasagna and some mmm mmmm Lemon Delicious pudding with ice cream.  I was not aware of the need to 'carbo load' for a 35 min race!...none the less I indulged in the pastime.

Come Sunday, up nice and early, Norm Mel and I rode down to Port Melbourne from their house in StKilda East.  Signed up for the Coffee Crits http://www.vic.cycling.org.au/News/latestnews.htm#womens, got shown around the course and then entered B grade Womens to race.  Most of the other girls just raced in the Coffee Crits but I was glad to have gotten Norm to enter me whilst doing the training at 7:30am.  Riding with the coaches was handy to get to feel confident on the corners.  However, once racing with the B grade girls, I found I learnt what to do pretty quickly.

On December 1^st and 2^nd, the township of Forrest hosted a mad bunch of mountain bikers pushing out as many laps as they could in 24 hours. 

There were teams of 2, 4, and 6 and of course the SOLO nutters!

I was one of the SOLO nutters.

Hey what a cool concept.

Geelong MTB club ran a race at 4pm on Saturday afternoon which you raced with your partner (both on course at same time) for 3 hours non stop.  You went into a category dependent on what sort of rider you were x 2.  Christy and I entered as both elite females which was 7 points each x 2 = 14.  This put us in Category 3.