MTB 1:30:00 [3] 20.0 km (4:30 / km)
slept:6.5 shoes: Yeti ASR
Fun lap of the Eagle trail with tRicky, BeagleMan and Lolly80.
Bit of a slow start- motivation was lacking and we spent a silly amount of time in Juffy/cricket's driveway and almost as long in the carpark.
I won the KOM points for Morrison Rd, quickly before anyone else realised we had started.
Started out on the first bit of single track which sTicky decided to miss out. Then through the tunnel, which SoftMan and Lolly needed LIGHTS to get through! The big soft softies! And they called Tooms soft! He may complain like a girl but at least he does ride everything!
On the walking trail to the tavern bit we picked up a small beagle. Cute little dog. Then off we went up the big climb. Feeling strongish, we powered up the hill, passed a group of three bikers like they were walking (they were). With typical awesome power, tRicky took the KOM points, with Wally not far behind. Jen right on Wally's tail, and next around the corner... the beagle! With Dangerman hot on HIS tail. Teehee.
No worries, we thought, he'll lose interest soon (the dog, not Danger). We powered through the first downhill, up the technical single track to the top of the hill, all the way down the hardest downhill bit where tRicky had a bit of a stop to calm his nerves and reassemble his bike and camelbak. Danger was the first down, then Jen. Lolly and cReaky had almost made it when they were passed in a gravelly rock garden by the dog! By this time Danger had named it 'Terminator'.
Off we hammered again - not far up the next hill a rider (i will call him rider A) passed in the other direction. The beagle turned around and followed him. Hooray! We thought. Until we got through the next section of single track and met some other riders, who had also seen rider A and had picked up the dog from him. Off went Danger like a rocket, he didn't want to get hunted down and killed by a robot dog, and I didn't see any of the boys until it got rocky again and Wally kept having to stop and walk, and tRicky kept having to stop to, well, pick himself up of the ground and clean up the blood.
But it was all good fun, it is a wicked fun track and nice and short to allow lots of mapping time afterwards.
MTB (mapping) 1 [1]
shoes: Yeti ASR
Spent 3 hours pootling around Guildford. Today i saw dolphins, sheep, horses, scarecrows and BMXers. I also saw my first security guard, who (typically) waved at me cheerfully. I did not map any of these things. I gave the BMXers a stern look because they were building jumps out of school furniture, and they ran off. Silly boys did not realise that i had no followup at all for the stern look so they were quite safe. Eventually i ran out of grapes, and as usual immediately lost interest and went home. It is a tricky balancing problem - if there are too few grapes i don't get much mapping done. If there were more grapes I would stay out there longer but then get diarrhoea.
Now I am OCADding, which is NOT loggable, Mr Thackray.
Paddle (Good Vibrations) 1:30:00 [3]
shoes: Fenn XT
Nice paddle with tRicky from sohpie's ex-power station, around Heirrison Island twice and back. We got to listen to the bass from 5 different stages all mixed together, which wasn't quite what we had in mind when we thought we would get some free music. The island was guarded by a perimeter of bouncers in yellow vests, who were sitting on rocks looking bored. Couldn't see any kangaroos but their home seemed to be well protected from the delinquents.