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Well Bangers and I went down to Albany to check out this new event. The write up is on flow with pictures if anyone was curious in trying this event out. It looked like everyone had a lot of fun.

http://flowmountainbike.com/post-all/events-sout...

For my second race ever in the history of time, up until now, was the Dwello 100, I went in the 60 (it was actually 65km [rabble rabble rabble]) I even prepared for this one!

I ate an entire packet of gnocchi the night before, it did the trick, along with some bars and some baby food shit that KD's rocko set me up with. I comfortable rode the whole thing in 4 hours and 3 minutes.

This was my first ever race on any kind of bike.

I think I smashed it, as under prepared as I was. I took on the men's masters 30.

Jarrahdale is my local and most ridden track so I have a bit of local knowledge to counter all the fit motherfuckers I was racing against.

I took no snack's or gels, didn't even know gels were a thang. I wanted to throw up half way through the second lap and I almost crashed when the kids egged me on to do a wheelie over the finish line where I came 7th.

Great race

866 photos for around 400 competitors so hopefully I got a good shot of you if you competed. Frustratingly the search function is playing up on the home page.

If you follow this link and enter your race plate number you should hopefully come up with a couple of shots.

http://travisdeane.zenfolio.com/?q=02

I've logged an issue with tech support so the search should be fixed from the home page but in the meantime you should be able to find your images using the link above.

Thanks
Travis Deane

After the late transfer from a wet Mt Annan to Awaba, a wild, wet and windy Friday night in Sydney had me thinking it would be a rough day. Obviously many others did as well, as the field was pretty thin. Hadn't been to Awaba for a few years, so rode the first lap blind. At my pace that's not too much of a drama. Decided to save the knees a bit by taking what I now know to be the much longer B line up Camelback the first time, but lost a lot of time and spent most of the rest of the first lap catching up to those that I had been riding near.

I have had my Lapierre Zesty 29er MTB stolen from my home this morning. Its a 2014 model, the frame is white with orange flash. Please let me know if you think you have seen it around. I can Identify it fairly easily as I've changed a couple of things from standard.

It was a rather cold start to the day with the car showing a minimum of 4.5 degrees on the drive up to ourimbah and it had me considering why I was doing this again. But when I got to the trail I caught up with Daniel (my team mate) and fatboy. Daniel and I performed a recce by discussing the trail with other riders as neither of us had ridden it before. In hindsight maybe we shouldn't have done this as everyone made out the drop zone to be worse than what it was and made Daniel and I think about taking the b line, shock horror.

Preparation for this race was abysmal, with 3 weeks overseas without a bike or even a hotel gym to work with. Got into Sydney at 6.00 am Wednesday after an overnight flight, so dealing with jet lag and lingering gastric problems from some dodgy seafood in Singapore. Quick spin on Wednesday after a nap, then up to Ourimbah for a couple of laps on Thursday, because I hadn't been there for a few years. Felt OK, so got my entry in. Went for another spin on Friday morning and felt really flat. Put it down to the fact that it was really cold and started raining just after I went out.

The last time I rode Ourimbah was 2 years ago for the same race.
Today was freezing cold, but somehow that made me less fatigued.

Enjoyed every single lap. I finished 2 seconds after the 4 hr mark, if I didn't go for a toilet break after the 1st lap I would've had time to do a 7th lap.

Coming in at 9th place for my age category(30-39) I was stoked, best results in a race so far !

I really need to learn to descent faster though, I was able to overtake guys when the trail goes up up but on the way down the guys I overtook would overtake me