in's and out's

Having a bit of a ground hog week. Struggle town is a closer way of describing it. I struggled my way through the dirt crit on Tuesday night despite cruising around before hand for a warm up with Gav and today on the coffee run I was in bastard land. The crit course was awesome, what a difference a few little changes can make. The new part up the hill was testing on a large gear, but it depended if there was traffic in front. I lasted til 3 to go when I got lapped by the front runners so I pulled the pin. It was nice to see Ewen with his new monster cross and hearing that he is busy building frames. It sounds like he has some nice projects finished or on the drawing board. Plus he had a six pack of beer so I was a happy recipient of a Bright Ale.


Me on the down hill on the new single track @ the crit
Photo Cam Wells

Still smashing away in the gym and enjoying it. It will make the difference for many different activities I enjoy. The true pay off I hop will be in winter when I am on the ski's. I am having a bit of the white stuff withdrawal as it is usually this time of year I am planning a northern hemisphere ski trip.... not this year. What has made it nice though is I am not working my ring off to get money together to pay for it. Instead I am trying to enjoy the ability to get out on the bike, which I have to do so I am ready for the Otway.
The riding has been booked in for the next couple of days and will see me all over the place over the next week all so for some excellent bits of singles track between Melburn, Woodend and Smiths Gully. Looking forward to it all.
I was disappointed in the result of Cycling Australia to cut the budget for the High Performance Program of MTB in Australia. I don't think they remember that is where the current World Champion got his start.... dickheads!
As you can see I have joined twitter for a laugh, it is a interesting little application to play with.... more to come!
Happy trails and get out there and ride it like you stole it!