Weekend Catch up

Training, training, training. Why? Cause it's the weekend. Saturday is time for that old traditional hit out the "Bakery Bunch". This ride started long before my time here in Canberra and is now one of the weekly staples for testing the legs. It has changed from it's original route due some dodgy riding and increased traffic on a number of roads.
The ride starts at the Bike Shed in Philip heads through town, and out to Gungalin before returning to town to talk sh!t and drink coffee. The ride starts pretty mellow before taking a left turn into the suburb of Gungalin after about an hour there all hell breaks loose with one of two sprints after 5k and the second at the bottom of the hill before hitting the Monaro highway signalling the end of the "fun" for the day.
I enjoy riding it as it's a good way to get in some needed speed work with the majority of the ride, ridden at about 40kph with the final quick section 45kph+ Can't really say anything eventful happened this week, 3rd in the first sprint and 3rd in the second again. The cruise home after the ride I managed to puncture coming into the driveway. Now my driveway is steep...I can generate 1000w in the mornings just getting up it and it's only about 40m long! The tire went flat right at the bottom just where you need to turn right...30kph, dead flat tire, no camber = recipe for disaster! Luckly i managed to keep it upright cursing the rotten luck puncturing in my own driveway. When i stopped outside the garage the little blighter that cause the escaping air was sitting right at the top. A sliver of glass...at the moment it seems to be glass season on Canberra roads with lots more then normal. In fact I have punctured twice in two weeks from the sh!t not good if your running lighter tires.

Sunday

Sunday was a MTB ride with the boys at Stromlo after having breakfast at a cafe in Weston. The meeting time to ride to the cafe was 8.15am....and guess who was late? who else but the man that organised the whole thing Big Jase! So Kev and I rode to the cafe order a couple of drinks and wait for the others to rock up/ catch up. Everyone's there by 9.00 and after consuming half a pig, a loaf of bread, and some eggs (well I did, I think the other's were more restrained)I was time to roll out for fun and games. Heading in the bottom of Stromlo we immediately noticed that the trail fairies had added a couple of new shore obstacles. The first was a see-saw, now these are always fun, hold your nerve till it tips and you roll off the other end. My wife has a funny story where she managed to ride off the side of one ended up on her back, with the bike landing on top of her and breaking her hydra-pac drenching her through, while Mike, Jarrod, and myself tried not to laught to hard at her :)
Scattered through out the rest of the trails were halve round logs and ramped roll overs...good for a bit of variety. Heading up the side of the hill everyone noticed that there was a bit of wind up... and sure enough coming down the other side hitting some of the jumps there was a bit of sideways movement! and so after a lap of playing silly buggers it was over. 12 o' clock time to roll home again. A good 50k for the day and a few laughs had.