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Sunday Apr 12, 2015 #
Event: Roleystone - MTBO
9 AM
Mountain Biking race (Roleystone MTBO) 2:35:39 [5] 29.74 km (11.5 kph) +860m
ahr:156 max:178 shoes: Giro Privateer
So glad first time out for a proper hit out in a long time and boy I am suffering now!
Started ok to #1 wasn't exactly hard, but took it slow anyway. then proceeded to completely muppet up #2 not reading detail - trying to discover new paths... just bad bad.
Paul had caught me and I was sure dave was in front of us by then.
#3 Paul went left at the T junction - thought awesome I can get some ground again. and proceed straight into the green track rather than the one I intended. this sucked and when I came out the other side - Paul can back around saying wtf is going on.
#4 Paul put up the pace abit and disappeared and I saw him coming out of 4.
#5 alone now and messed up my contour reading over shot the tracks in and hit my catching feature (the t-junction) was easy from there. Saw Tash coming back up to 5 as I went down the road to 6 - she looks less than impressed <3 TT, she was havign a bad day!
#6 taking it slowly because I could see it was going to be tricky, and it was, he went straight passed me. Saw Dave to my suprise and then Paul - I got a good road in because of the traffic and because I was going slowly - I would love to claim I would have got it first time but I can see why it was difficult.
Had to refold map here and pretty much lost contact with everyone. #7 was clean, #8 had a few dramas with the power lines throwing me off but got there after back tracking once. Went via the main road to #9 - felt efficient and to my surprise met Paul again at #10... Thought in with a chance. Tried to be sneaky towards #11 - Paul had the same idea - I thought he had gone passed with a group but as I turned around to get the small western track I saw him disappearing around the corner. Caught him up by the control and stayed with him to #12. Had to refold the map here and that was the last I saw of him.
#13 via main road and the back up at it rather than trying the direct route. $13 went north and used the track it runs on rather than main road -= riding was good and felt strong still. #15 was clean and on the way to #16 saw Paul coming back out - he had a good chunk of time on me now. Belted down the hill to #17 hoping to make up some ground - but lets be honest that was a futile cause.
#18 debated en route hill or road - decided the hill - that was very very wrong. it was a tad over grown and the fast downhill wasn't really realised and had to even jump off on the uphill as back was starting to pack in.. sadly when I jumped off both quads cramped badly which was countered by me drinking like 500ml-750ml straight of my electrolytes. Was feeling spanked by 18 with not much power left.
Plodded along the fence line to 19 - it was surprisingly hard work and the track wasnt as nice as I was hoping/expecting. in fact in so spots I would have said green. I had a glass bottle explode under my tyre half way to 19 - which had my concerned but my bike survived!
#20 was good but I was over it by now - and as I was leaving #20 got a bug in my eye - almost had me off my bike! - #21 probably took the less efficient route but as I said over it and then home.
Was happy with my course length - seems to be short compared to others during discussion - just highlights that I need to get fitter and faster.
Body feeling smashed now - first big hitout in ages! was good to see everyone again felt like a while. Gopro was dead at 1hr30 (not sure why) but will see if I got anything good - doubtful as it seemed to angle up when I saw it at one point/.
Was aiming for 2hr30 came in 2hr 35 so happy enough and not too far behind the others which was a nice change. Drank the full 3L pack I had with me surprisingly! I wasnt going to bring it at one stage this morning!!! Really glad I did now!
Started ok to #1 wasn't exactly hard, but took it slow anyway. then proceeded to completely muppet up #2 not reading detail - trying to discover new paths... just bad bad.
Paul had caught me and I was sure dave was in front of us by then.
#3 Paul went left at the T junction - thought awesome I can get some ground again. and proceed straight into the green track rather than the one I intended. this sucked and when I came out the other side - Paul can back around saying wtf is going on.
#4 Paul put up the pace abit and disappeared and I saw him coming out of 4.
#5 alone now and messed up my contour reading over shot the tracks in and hit my catching feature (the t-junction) was easy from there. Saw Tash coming back up to 5 as I went down the road to 6 - she looks less than impressed <3 TT, she was havign a bad day!
#6 taking it slowly because I could see it was going to be tricky, and it was, he went straight passed me. Saw Dave to my suprise and then Paul - I got a good road in because of the traffic and because I was going slowly - I would love to claim I would have got it first time but I can see why it was difficult.
Had to refold map here and pretty much lost contact with everyone. #7 was clean, #8 had a few dramas with the power lines throwing me off but got there after back tracking once. Went via the main road to #9 - felt efficient and to my surprise met Paul again at #10... Thought in with a chance. Tried to be sneaky towards #11 - Paul had the same idea - I thought he had gone passed with a group but as I turned around to get the small western track I saw him disappearing around the corner. Caught him up by the control and stayed with him to #12. Had to refold the map here and that was the last I saw of him.
#13 via main road and the back up at it rather than trying the direct route. $13 went north and used the track it runs on rather than main road -= riding was good and felt strong still. #15 was clean and on the way to #16 saw Paul coming back out - he had a good chunk of time on me now. Belted down the hill to #17 hoping to make up some ground - but lets be honest that was a futile cause.
#18 debated en route hill or road - decided the hill - that was very very wrong. it was a tad over grown and the fast downhill wasn't really realised and had to even jump off on the uphill as back was starting to pack in.. sadly when I jumped off both quads cramped badly which was countered by me drinking like 500ml-750ml straight of my electrolytes. Was feeling spanked by 18 with not much power left.
Plodded along the fence line to 19 - it was surprisingly hard work and the track wasnt as nice as I was hoping/expecting. in fact in so spots I would have said green. I had a glass bottle explode under my tyre half way to 19 - which had my concerned but my bike survived!
#20 was good but I was over it by now - and as I was leaving #20 got a bug in my eye - almost had me off my bike! - #21 probably took the less efficient route but as I said over it and then home.
Was happy with my course length - seems to be short compared to others during discussion - just highlights that I need to get fitter and faster.
Body feeling smashed now - first big hitout in ages! was good to see everyone again felt like a while. Gopro was dead at 1hr30 (not sure why) but will see if I got anything good - doubtful as it seemed to angle up when I saw it at one point/.
Was aiming for 2hr30 came in 2hr 35 so happy enough and not too far behind the others which was a nice change. Drank the full 3L pack I had with me surprisingly! I wasnt going to bring it at one stage this morning!!! Really glad I did now!
Friday Apr 10, 2015 #
5 PM
Note
Went segway riding with work function today... that was interesting ....
Monday Apr 6, 2015 #
9 AM
Scuba Diving (Haapiti) 45:00 [3]
My mask was so shit! fogged ever 10s. tried everything including taking it off completely and spit cleaning it while in the water. still no good. Really took the edge off what would have been a spectacular dive. Sharks everywhere again (just black tips) we where swimming inside a crater that protected us from drift... apparently I have 2 black tips swim over my head as close as 6 inchs or less... but I was cleaning my mask so missed seeing that :(
Large Napoleon, lion fish, was generally a pretty good dive... stupid mask!
195 in 40 out max 15m.
Large Napoleon, lion fish, was generally a pretty good dive... stupid mask!
195 in 40 out max 15m.
10 AM
Scuba Diving (Tapu - Drift) 55:00 [3]
Returned to Tapu for my final dive - wasnt as good as first time there, but still incredible vis and a lot of sharks - had a lemon shark pass really close which was awesome, got good footage of it. Box fish, black tip sharks, trumpet fish and a few large trigger fish.
Generally a pretty good dive
in 195 out 40 max 20m
Generally a pretty good dive
in 195 out 40 max 20m
5 PM
Swimming (Stand Up Paddleboard) 26:59 [3] 1.14 km (2.5 kph)
Short Sup around the resort
Swimming (Splash) 6:33 [1]
lol - where going to go for a long swim, dinner plans got changed - made for a pretty much deletable session but meh its there so I kept it