December 2008
17 posts
The Christmas festivilities are over. We are off to christchurch this afternoon to stock up on GoFast! and then on to the ferry for the north. Our surrogate christmas families looked after us well. We had some good homemade cooking and restocked the good nutrients, and also had some sit down dinners for a change. Our new sponsors got me some new boxers (a blatant hint) and Liam some chocolat...
Festivities.... yes
Christmas. It seems a bit tame over here, probably because its the middle of the summer and it just isn’t the same with nice weather. You cant really celebrate the days getting shorter. Christmas at home is all about meeting up with the family and going on my annual walk. There will be no walking this year though.
Liam and I are going to stay in Wanaka for the festivities with some Scots,...
the league of gentlemen
We got to Queenstown over the mountain pass from wanaka with borrowed XC bikes from Spook and Mo who we stayed with in wanaka. The wed night League of gentlemen race was good craic. We got in teams of fours and had to ride a trail each collecting letters each to finaly piece together a word. My team came joint last with Pangus rolling in after the prises. The word was a festive Father Christmas....
Bike HQ round 3
The next race in our schedule was the final round of the series in christchurch. We got some good biking in before the race doing uplift to the top up the road sharing the driving. There are loads of different tracks and there all pretty good. Before the race we went round to Larrys house. He taped out the course and we walked it to get our lines sorted and then hit up his swimming pool....
Nelson and back
The race was pretty good. a low key affair but some good racing on a mint track. I got 2nd which was okay behind a local pinner so cant complain. Their was a gorge on the drive out so got some cliff jumping done to cool down after.
After the race it was Keiran Bennets 21st birthday party in Nelson. Its a really big deal out here with speeches and handing over of a key. we are getting to know a...
We Made It
Northern Scotland to southern New Zealand. It took 3 days of changing time zones and sitting down so I felt reaked after the journey. We had 24 hours in LA so got a walk around the streets and a swim in the travel lodge pool to stretch out. I managed to pack in a few films to stay entertained aswell. Black Sheep a NZ film with Killer sheep in it was pretty funny
Liam and I are in christchurch now...