Colville Connection

On Friday night I was picked up by to nice young men from Napier as we were heading to the top of Coromandel for a 72 km mountain bike race starting and finishing in Colville. We stayed in Coromandel with the rest of Team Avanti (Hiskey and JT) in a very nice bungalow.

The race started at 9am and I finished at 12:30, not my ideal race time... but a great race over all and I managed to sneak into the top 40 finishing 39th. I was riding my Spark 20 and loved it on the farm decent's and some of the corrugated roads. I had two peak full gels berry flavor that helped me big time, out near the end.

At the moment I am dealing with a bung leg and have seen a specialist but we are yet to confirm what it is. I am getting an ultra scan done on a main artery to my legs as well as other testing at the start of April.

I will keep you all updated in how that goes but for now I am going to take a small step down from racing and just enjoy riding and get stuck into my studies for semester one.

Karapoti Classic

Yeap another Karapoti Classic done for the year, I don't ways look forward to this event as it is a bike wrecker, however my Scott Spark 20 held up fine and the extra travel was excellent for this marathon type event.

I still will not forget how step and long some of those climbs are, even using my small chain ring on them with the lack of force my legs can put out at the top end it defiantly made my life more pleasant.

How ever I am going to see a specialist to find out what is wrong with my leg and hopefully come home with an explanation that I will let you know about.

I finished the Poti Classic in three hours and 8 minutes, a bit different to what I normal would expect but did enjoy finishing with a dip in the river with cramp on the side.

Kenda Karma's were my choice of tyre and I was using them tubeless, although I had a slow leak which I kept feeding C02 near the end I had no trouble and they held on to the gravel roads perfect as well as giving me ampule traction on the climbs.

Thanks to the team members that roll up and a good weekend away.