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Bloody Hell Wolfie, your keen! The game doesn’t start for another 9 hours
Thanks go to Kevdog for inspiring the ride, Adam for organising and leading and everyone else that came along. I struggle with names sometimes and today was one of those days, probably because not have had much time I the saddle this past 18 months or so I was a bit nervous as to how I would go. Polly was a no show due to the dreaded gout so it was a crew of 8 that started the day.
We headed off under the highway and pretty much straight into some flowing singles to get warmed up and it wasn’t long before Adam hit the deck.
Soon after we came out onto the main trail and Tim had a flat front. While he was trying to pump it up the rest of us headed back down the trail we had just come up then detoured to the right for a warm up hill then set off again. Not long after Tim’s tyre was flat again and as he was running tubeless he decided to bail out and head back to the cars, and then there were seven.
The rest is a bit of a blur, we played on Kevdog’s cheese roll hill where he stepped of the bike and ended up running down the hill before going base over apex and hurting his ribs but soldiered on.
That’s Kev halfway down after attempt number 2
After that it was single after single with the odd testing section to keep us on our toes. We got to the top of Marble Hill and had a quick bite to eat around 12:30.
The reason they call it Marble Hill
From there we started making our way back via as many singles and side tracks as Adam could find I think. A few of us were starting to do it a bit tough so Adam said he would cut out the trickier sections though I think he may have forgotten he said that at one point.
It was about this time that Kev was shot in the hammy by a sniper and headed for the cars so now we were 6.
We continued on the singles for another half an hour or so. I’d had some cramping and arm pump in my right arm just before lunch and was thinking that I was glad it was gone when the same thing happened to my left hand and arm. One of the other riders was doing it tough with leg and arm cramps as well so it was decided to call it quits and head back to the cars via the main trail (though some of the singles were smoother than the “road”.
We got back to the cars just before 2 which was perfect for me as I had been getting cramps in both hands on the run back, had run out of water and had plans for later in the afternoon.
Unfortunately not many chances for photos when you sweep so what you see in this post is all I got. I took 2 GoPro cameras, both different models and had trouble with both so not much action came out of them either. My older Hero model had trouble reading or writing to the memory card and the battery on my Hero 3 went flat shortly after the start of the ride even though it had been charging for 2 hours the night before :angry: . I did manage to get a little footage out of it though as well as some more on my phone which I have cobbled together for about 3 minutes of footage. Where I could remember names I have tagged people in the clip, to those who’s names I forgot I apologise.
It was a great first hitout after minimal single trail type ridng this last year or so and I was very happy with how I went. Not drops, falls or injuries and minimal trouble getting up and down the tricky bits.
Thanks again to everyone and I can’t wait to do it all again :woohoo:
adam wrote:huskybloke wrote:what sort of km ?About 80k’s if Kev and Jeffro can last the distance
I have plans Saturday arvo so will need to be heading back by 2 so that will save me if I need saving. (That’s my story and I am sticking to it)
