Riding

Goodness, a few memories today. I headed out early this morning, well at 7.30 anyway, and did a good Port Hills circuit. Not the double ascent I had intended, but nonetheless a good start the straining.

Then a coffee after to recover, and back home to head out with the kids to Bottle Lake Forest for another ride. It was the first time we'd been riding with Mummy (as normally it's my domain) and interestingly it didn?t go well. Couldn't ride for more than 50 meters, could ride up small hills, couldn't ride down them. Lots of tears. And this is from the same kids that would 10K or more before Christmas.

So, we split up and Adam and I went one way and mummy and Hannah went the other. Things improved.

We arrived back at the carpark, and daddy being somewhat frustrated decided to have another good crack at the bike park. It was all going quite well, until I got a little bold and off a raised plank drop I ended up being a little far forward. Yes, over the handlebars, one clip not released, a reasonable drop, landed on left shoulder, bike lands on top. I came up laughing, but with big scratches and a good shunt to the shoulder. So far it's had an hour of frozen peas on it, and a few glasses of red wine. It sort of feels OK. Tomorrow I'll let you know.

But then, we got home in time to head out for a BBQ, but a rain/hail/thunder/lightening storm hit. Simply amazing. So amazing that our house leaked (a lot) and our garage flooded. I was on the roof of our garage in a few cm of hail in my undies with it hailing hard and lightening, and our neighbour asking if I was OK. Well, it was bl**dy cold, the gutters were blocked, I was standing in hail, risking a lightening srike, getting freezing feet, and our garage was flooding. Yep, fine thanks Craig ;-) Excuse the undies! And it is supposed to be summer.

But then it stopped, but we cancelled the BBQ to tidy up the mess. All back to normal now. Yep, just another day of climate change ...