Training Log Archive: Fly'n

On the drive to Squamish, a black bear tried to have his nose taken off by our bumper, fuck me

C • driving and beers 1

The Shelly Cottle Squamish Mega Mix. Shelly's brother shuttled us half way up the mountian, spent a little time trying to get my brakes working properly as I changed the pads right before leaving but the pistons wouldn't go back far enough and were half on the entire time, with no movement in the leaver and a little touch would lock them up, anyway then biked up a fire trial to a new track that has been built using $50,000, Half Nelson, holy shit it was awesome, really flowy but still a good downhill gradient with lots and lots of little pumpy bumps, were bloody tricky. Claire had an over the handle bars on one (didn't see) which knocked her a bit not the best for first track in Canada. Then back up the hill again and down another track cant remember name with was a bit more rocky with a couple of small drops, pretty sweet, then carried on down another track, a black one (Blue easiest, black hardest) just after Shelly was telling us that the levels are slightly higher in the Squamish area, and the saying "if you can ride Squamish you can ride anywhere", this track went straight down over some massive rocks, Shelly disappeared and I just slid and bounced all over the show as all I had was no brakes or locked on brakes, was shitting myself and just managed to stop before a 4 foot drop, bloody hell. Got a bit better after that, then cruised around a road past her place and did a track in behind called Roller-coaster, very vegas roller-coaster like. Awesome ride

Left for Canada at 7:30pm, arrived 5:00pm I just discovered time travel!!

Fuck the U.S, why is it that every other country in the world you can 'transit' except the fucken U.S. What a bunch of fuckwits and Air NZ needs some abuse too if they know what the procedure is like but still arrange flights with a 2 hour gap. Started waiting in the customs que for an hour (not moving) while asking several custom officers if we could get through somewhere due to our flight "No, you will miss it" was the standard answer, we eventually just went in the US citizens line and got through after finger printing, photos, eye scan and anal probe (might as well have been) then also instead of your bags getting transferred you need to collect and clear them as well, got our bags, and had 15 mins before flight was leaving, asked the majority of the 500 people waiting in line if it was alright to jump ahead and no one had any issues until we got to the customs officer and he said "you cut line, there is no cutting in my line go to the back" and then refused to talk to us calling up the next person (as Claire had a slight breakdown) then an old couple told the guy we were next and they wouldn't go up until he served us, fucken hell, well his supervisor got called, after trying to be a bigger asshole than the first guy, he finally gave in to Claires crying and sent us through, then we finally got some Canadians at the Air Canada desk and they rushed our bags through and then got us through all the security checks to make our flight has they were closing the doors.

By the time we got our car, sorted out finding the apartment we were staying in it was about 10pm

Advice, dont go to or through America

C • transit 3

7:07 a.m.. Glenfield Squash.

Fuck Andrew is playing well, I had 2 good games but got whipped in the others, ended slightly early when I broke a string, bloody hell 2nd game with this new racquet and a broken string, maybe now I can try and get more tension in it and hopefully feel a bit better

12:35 p.m.. Albany.

14 a side, bloody hell, too many people, not enough running for me and someone thought it would be a good idea to buy a world cup ball, average. You think with more people there would be more passing, but no, all the extras were the hoggers and with the ball all of a sudden everyone thought they were Rolando and trying fancy foot work and shots miles outside the box, but they were just fucken useless. Made plenty of saves on goal in my turn at goalie, but never had a shot on goal, instead I DID pass 4 times in front of goal to an open team mate to tap it in. That was about all the ball I saw as well

C • what? 3

Got home from work at about 7pm, then moved 3 cubic meters of firewood until about 10pm, training enough