i cannot do anything but second Minty on the awesomeness of the weekend to the peeps in cottage 1 or was it 2 you ROCK! to fandacious thanx for the lift correction on the mechanical needs though........ i told you wed or thurs that i might need your mechanical skills to adjust my gears the whole other stuff that happened afterwards wasn't planned so fri was meeting time some food and groceries shopping at 10:30 at night....... and then the rain started......i was praying hard that it stops but dont think anyone was listening so off to bed, not happy as now i was imagining what i'd look like the next day 1am wake up call from fanie..... with a light shining 30cm away from my face dude, i was not happy with you...... sat.......race day we get up get ready, ride down to the start where i left my new compadres get to the start line at 7:15 or so, race starts at 8:30....... now those of you that know me might start laughing i do not get to start lines on time listened to 2 guys talk sh!t, and perv over an ibis mojo off we go finally, my feet are now frozen....... tar tar tar for like 5km reach the first climb 2km long and i keep on making new friends after we reached the off rd section i felt on top of the world as Marius said in a previous post it wasnt technical so you could go pretty fast.....provided you removed all slow moving objects out the way more friends......2 guys in bicycling kits (1 needed to pee badly apparently), the guys that import commencal, had a chat with the one oke on a meta 4 in the pearly white finish with the bright green........drool (oh MichH he said he knows you and wanted to know if you're happy with your bike) there was some guy in a thule kit......didnt make friends with him he seemed too upset cos me and commencal guy were talking sh*t and he had to overtake us. i let him but that woke up the in me and i decided he is challenging me so i dropped him 1 big climb, people and kids EVERYWHERE anyway no major excitement i felt on top of the world my tyres were great on the mud my nose was not running (i know gross but it's a part of cycling ) i drank like a quarter of my bottle of water (after stressing that i wont have enough) and didnt stop at the water point did a 2:53 at the end (or so winning time says ) some girl passed me 500m from the end and i had NOTHING left in me to catch her.......really annoying so a good meal - thanx marius and lilo a mechanic at hand - minty, what would i have done without you??? a night of uninterrupted sleep - thanx fanie nutricious breakfast and a pole position.... adds up to a great race will def be there next yr but this time on the long one sat night was supposed to be a booze night but sadly it ended with an early bed and message in a bottle........who likes movies like that anyway??? sun we woke up early to see our room mates leave for the battle of the rd only for marius to return 10min later with a slashed tyre.......not cool dude not cool so the 3 of us (minty, marius and me) fetched sara and went to have some fun.......or frustration as i found out half way i was real slow on the single track as my slippery roots skills arent that great so half way my gears start their old tricks and im back to about 6 or 7 usable ones beautiful view when we reached the table with benches got back after some climbing and i was feeling like i had done some work got back to the pretty house, packed and on our way long long trip but so worth it i got like 3 or 4 pics will post bit later
