Had an eventful day yesterday. Myself, Niall and Kev headed down to Kangaroo Valley for another downhill run on the bikes. Tom stayed at home as he hurt his back playing squash with Billy. We had a much more streamlined operation than the last time, and planned to do the run twice. First one was great fun and uneventful, apart from me hitting a top speed of 68.7kmh on the tarmac run back to the car. Kev also made it to the top of the long hill without putting a foot down. None of the rest of us have managed it yet.
After a bit of food we got the car shuffle underway and were all ready at the top of the second run around 2pm. Niall led the way and got a puncture almost immediately. Luckily we had tubes this time, so we just swapped a new one in and kept going. Kev made it over the big hill without stopping again, and I took over the lead for the second half. Toward the end of the run there were a few jumps in a row. First was good, the second was much better, but I landed the thrid one all wrong and I came off the bike at around 30kmh.I bounced and rolled a bit and once I stopped I couldn’t breathe at all for about 10secs. I faded out a bit and heard the two guys telling me to stay down. I remember thinking to myself “oh yeah, I’ve crashed my bike”, so there must have been a period before that when I had no idea what was going on. Kev said that I was shaking, and was ghost white, then green for a bit. I was going to stay where I was for a bit and get my breath back, as I was seriously winded, but I was lying in amongst a load of bull ants, so I had to move. The colour returned to my cheeks a minute or two later, and after a while I was able to get back on the bike and take the rest of the ride very easy. Kev and Niall did a great job making sure I was OK and taking my bike apart for the ride back to Sydney.I took this morning off work to get my ribs checked as they were really sore. I had an x-ray and all is ok, so I’ll just have to put up wiht the pain for a couple of days until it heals up a little. I’ll also have to cut back on the extreme mountain biking for a bit ;-)B: 35km – R: 3.2km – W: 2 sessions – Row: 1km
Had an eventful day yesterday. Myself, Niall and Kev headed down to Kangaroo Valley for another downhill run on the bikes. Tom stayed at home as he hurt his back playing squash with Billy. We had a much more streamlined operation than the last time, and planned to do the run twice. First one was great fun and uneventful, apart from me hitting a top speed of 68.7kmh on the tarmac run back to the car. Kev also made it to the top of the long hill without putting a foot down. None of the rest of us have managed it yet.