Sculptures by the Sea

Every year Cottesloe has an exhibition called 'Sculptures by the Sea', this morning we went down there to have a look.

Karri Cup

Ealry starting grid for the 100km

Went down to Northcliffe (about 5 hours drive from Perth) for the long weekend for the Karri Cup 100 km mountain bike race. Great weekend with 500 riders, lots of nice people and nice bikes to look at. Saturday night saw a circuit race of a 800m track- fast and furious for 15 min. The race start on Sunday morning started well, but at about the hour and a half mark the skies let loose with huge thunder and lightning and plenty of rain. The trails turned muddy, making the ups feel tougher and the downs more interesting.

The half way stage was suppose to be at 50 km. I thought my speedo was out as it was reading 60 km and I wasn't even there yet! Talking to others at the half way mark I realised the race was longer than even the organisers had planned. The return leg was promised to be only 40 km, making a total of 100. a combination of mentally not being prepared for the extra 17 km, a crash with about 10 to go and a distinct lack of food and hydration meant the last 10 km were super tough.

I finished in 10th place in the Solo Open Men which helped ease some of the pain! I think I will stick to enduro races this year- so once the wounds have healed it's back on the bike in training for the 6 hr race coming up soon.

Max Speed

I've been doing quite alot of road riding lately, trying to get to a group ride on a Saturday morning. The roadies are quick and it has been a struggle keeping up with the top guys. We went for a hill ride up to Kalamunda the other week. Hard work up but lots of fun on the way down. All time top speed- 83.63 km/hr!

Jackson's friends

Jackson loves to hang out with his furry friends when he wakes up in the morning. First thing he does is ask Rich or I to put his friends into the cot with him, then he sits chatting away to them for a while.