The journey kicked off on thursday night after packing the car i drove down to sydney to stay at hiran's house because iwas seeing a guru about my shoulder..
from friday morning my stomach just didnt feel right, but i hit the freeways into the looming clouds( so how do new foam grips hold up??) i never made a stop till bundanoon turnoff as i had intel pheasents nest was not worth the stop. so i loaded up with a sandwich and some drinks.. i was cruising past lake george and my stomach got worse and felt totally drained so i pulled over for a nap into a boot load of gear very squashed but i fell asleep quite quickly no idea how long i was asleep for but made it to stromlo around 230pm.,, ifound one of my team mates (brodie the roadie) national U17 crit champ... so we set up camp and then headed out on a lap with mr & mrs vin pretty cruzy but it made me feel better till i stopped... and when we did hiran had arrived so we had to move ourcamp to our secret location...:) and hiran had our lights http://www.radical-lights.com/ awesome lights... any light can do the job, but the spread on these were fantastic icouldnt even tell i had one on my bar and one on my helmet except i was casting shadows on every rider icame across :).
I had dinner at a mates place then did my food shopping and backto camp..(still feeling crap>it lasted all wknd) the other half of the team RADICAL-LIGHTS in the form of charli mccabe and matt reekie arrived around 1130pm..
I awoke around 7am after needing the toilet for hrs i couldnt hold out any longer but caught up witha few mates on the return trip back to camp.
We elected matt to start us off because he had the crapiest shoes... and also the crappiest first lap i think he said he stopped at the pub, all i heard was something about bottles over my twisting cranks as i took the baton...
whoa i did some overtaking the amount of people on track but it became an added feature of staying upright... i really enjoyed the track but not nearly throwing up each lap, but i did manage one lap under 55min, my legs had all the power but my body just couldnt handle it..
But the team did a great job of getting us to 4th place once we found some timing results.. we all went lap for lap the sun went down and charli went for her first night ride..1137 lumens ha it wasnt really night time now..:)
on an early morning lap we managed to get the batteries mixed up and the lights died on charli and took 1hr 40min to find her way home again and thru the tears a smiled appeared when i checked timing and we moved into 3rd place wen at last check we were 20mins back, and that lapped could of been charli's last as we were chasin the poduim the boys were gona finish the race off... the lead from 4th was enough to let charli to enjoy her 5th lap around 9am but with 2flat tryes it was another unhappy charli.. matt put in a smoking 55min lap just outside the teams fastestlap (mine) i did wat i could but the tank was running dry but it was enough to get brodie out one las time and came over the finish in style with the radical lights banner as a cape, which grabbed the announcers voice,,, to bad for the company sponsoring the event hehe.
so we took 3rd place in the mixed fours all happy smiles... i will add the poduim pic when i receive it...
JUST CHOPS :) ps planning a 140km ss epic on saturday...
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