53.00 mi in 02:58:00 hours at 17.87 mi/h on Opera Super Leonardo. [Cycling] Easter SMRR with Guru, Napalm, Toasted, Eurobunter, D (glad I'm not one) Kennedy, BMO & Melanie whom some regarded a challenger to a throne that I, being an avowed & ardent republican, don't recognise due to my belief that any head of state should be representative of the people's choice & elected by due democratic process, preferably, a candidate nominated & approved by an elected parliament... but I digress. Phoenix Sprint was just won by a recovered Napalm & the Brewery Sprint was shut down by Guru whose long years in the insurance industry has resulted in him being over cautious in his assessment of risk. Coffee at Raw (not roar) then onto the Velodrome where Nanny Guru once again advised caution which I threw to the wind for some hot laps & a top 10 Strava placing. (top 5 if you ignore the +100km/h efforts) With numbers dwindling due to domestic responsibilities, I was finally Mel & I left for a lap of Love.
53.00 mi in 02:58:00 hours at 17.87 mi/h on Opera Super Leonardo. [Cycling] Easter SMRR with Guru, Napalm, Toasted, Eurobunter, D (glad I'm not one) Kennedy, BMO & Melanie whom some regarded a challenger to a throne that I, being an avowed & ardent republican, don't recognise due to my belief that any head of state should be representative of the people's choice & elected by due democratic process, preferably, a candidate nominated & approved by an elected parliament... but I digress. Phoenix Sprint was just won by a recovered Napalm & the Brewery Sprint was shut down by Guru whose long years in the insurance industry has resulted in him being over cautious in his assessment of risk. Coffee at Raw (not roar) then onto the Velodrome where Nanny Guru once again advised caution which I threw to the wind for some hot laps & a top 10 Strava placing. (top 5 if you ignore the +100km/h efforts) With numbers dwindling due to domestic responsibilities, I was finally Mel & I left for a lap of Love.
62.76 mi in 03:13:00 hours at 19.51 mi/h on Opera Super Leonardo. [Cycling] A Good Friday "Hadleys Ride" with a good contingent from TDS. Rode up to the Terrace, back roads to Maitland, then down the New England to Beumont St. & coffee where we had to endure the not so appropriate odors of the cloven hoofed animal.
21.69 mi in 01:09:00 hours at 18.86 mi/h on Opera Leonardo. [Cycling] Evening date with the Love & 1st ride for a while under lights. Late getting away as I had to find all the various lights, mounts & replacement batteries. Great having the Garmin lit up like a proper dashboard & awesome riding a tunnel of glaring luminosity from 900 lumens of lighting power. I plan on building up to 1800 lumens & give that Tawny Frogmouth I saw, something to purse it's lips about.
26.91 mi in 01:06:00 hours at 24.46 mi/h on Opera Super Leonardo. [Cycling] Superb day for racing with good numbers & lots of out of towners lining up. A bit of lethargy in B grade with no real willingness to chase the breaks. CTE & a few other got away with two to go with only a major catastrophe between them & victory. This came in the form of a train crossing the road & the race grinding to a halt. We let them go, giving them about 40sec & we never came close to getting them. A big congrats to CTE & his maiden B grade placing.
10.00 mi in 00:34:00 hours at 17.65 mi/h on Opera Super Leonardo. [Cycling] Cruisey ride home in the group but a nasty accident involving a cyclist at the stadium was not a pleasant sight.
