As I write this I am up to day 10 in Bright. Norm and Saskia arrived from Forrest last night around 10pm.
Here is what I have been up to:....
Monday last week(29th Oct?) I drove up from Forrest to Bright, not well at all. I had to stop driving every hour or so and sleep and recover. It was a very tough drive and the minute I got here I went to bed in my motel room.
Poor Jeff had to deal with me being bedridden all day, so he went and rode up Mt Buffalo by himself. Tuesday he had planned to ride up Mt Hotham, I knew this was not a likely thing that I was goign to achieve but rode to Harrietville struggling to maintain 25kmph. Still a nice 50km return ride on the flat with a nasty angry magpie that swooped me both ways. Bit late mate!...its nearly summer!
Wednesday I decided to venture out and go for a MTB ride with Bright MTB club and we rode the 6 hour course, which was totally awesome. Starting to feel better...thank goodness.
Thursday I let Jeff decide what he wanted to do and so we did an all day 60km MTB epic using all the trails I rode last night plus more. A great day. The weather was hot and steamy with loads of sunshine but most importantly loads of fun single track...so much so that Jeff was keen to go for an early morning ride on Friday before he was heading back to Geelong. Friday we explored some new trails that were steep and rocky with some hairy off camber downhill switchbacks that had me nervous and a tad hesitant to say the least.
Thanks Jeff for a wonderful week, sorry I could not share the road riding trips with you but rest assured I enjoyed the rides to come...
One week out from winning the Surf Coast 6 hour we held our 2nd MTB Skills camp at Eumeralla. What a hoot. We had some wonderful people come and grace us with their prescence. Wow, Norm and i are so lucky to meet the awesome people that we do. Thanks to all of you who attended our camp, we hope to see you again at a race, a course, or our next camp! Dennis Beare was terrific with our group too as we took them to the Anglesea MTB park with the 4X track. It was wonderful to see the increase in confidence and skill come out by the end of the weekend as well as new friendships.
Thanks to Torquay Cycling Factory, Eumeralla Scout Camp, Dennis Beare, Donna Rae Szalinski, Gen from Torq, Lorenzo of course, Shane from Soul Fuel, Jet Black Products for use of demo lights (Nite Rider), Liz and Adam the awesome instructors and of course Normie Douglas.
