Kangaroo Sightings - 1.5

Cronulla ended up rocking.  The girls raced AWESOME.  Gina got it all prep'ed, wrapped and handed it to Kirsty on a silver platter.  The team controlled the whole race from the gun and got the win they deserved.  I got on National TV a buncha times.  Yeah, I'm pretty cool.  I was in the pits and my good looks just draw tv time.  What can I say!

We had some 'Champers' at lunch and got going back to Brissie by 330.  11 hours later, we were back home.  We took the more straight forward route home that didn't include the winding roads.  A little longer in distance but the highway roads were much more relaxing to drive.

Yeah, back home, back at work tomorrow.  It's hot as tits out so I'm gonna go hang out in the mall!

Bike Mechanish - Job Explained

Got here in Cronulla early evening yesturday. The driving was only 800km but our wonderful Garmin took us through some CRAZY roads! The street signs said to continue on HWY 15, Mr. Garmin was saying Hook Left. Hooked left we did! Ondulating, Winding farmer roads at 110 km/h with 8bikes on the roof and a Minivan full of shiat! It was pretty sick. Woulda been a different story on a 1000cc Yamaha! We somehow made it to the Pacific Hwy after flirting with death most of the day with about $100,000 worth of gear strapped to the car! Oh yeah, it was also PISSING rain the whole time, which also made the flirting more intense!

Went for a ride to the course this morning after picking up the girls. Cronulla is a rad little beach suburb. Awesome surf, babes everywhere and coffee! Good morning!

Cleaned the bikes this afternoon after realizing the Bike stand I brought down was broken and useless! OOPS! Boss shows up tonight and hopefully we wont have a legitemate excuse to use the stand tomorrow! I knew I shoulda checked it out before! Also his fault for putting it with all the travel gear!

Anywho, race is tomorrow. We dragged a piss load of gear down for a 35 minute Crit. Thats their National Champs! I'm not complaining but my boss must really love his girls and their racing! He's spending a ton of money this weekend!

My internet time is up and we'll be heading to dinner soon.

Talk soon

World Cup Shots

Tough Being Awesome

Went into work today after taking saturday off to hang with the wife unit before she left.  Wasn't sure what to expect as we don't usually pull wrench on mondays.  After doing the few repairs there were to be done, Marcel, my boss, called me into his office to inform me that I would be traveling to Cronulla.  Driving the workshop down to the National Criterium Championships.  HELLS YEAH!   Do I have to??!  Ok.... If I must!

The rest of the day consisted of me preparing the 6 sets of Zipps and getting 2 Pinarello's ready for our two guest riders.  Gina Grain, Canadian National champ, and some other chick who normally rides for Webcor.

I also sat through another awesome wind training session!

And inbetween doing all that, I was generally being Mr. Amazing to all the clients.  They all love the fact that I am from somewhere else!

So yeah!  Off to Cronulla, which is 30 minutes from Sydney.  Might get a chance to call Robbie McEwen a short little shit! or something of the sort!

Anywho, my week started off awesome.  Hows the snow?!

Canada 2 - Ozz -1

It's HOT has tits right now.  Summer has hit with all its fury.  The current readings off of my Ipod read 29 feels like 40 with humidity.  I'm sucking back my favoritre Miller Chills as fast as I can.  I just made some pesto and I'm trying all sorts of things to make it cooler.  Next step is to strip my Pepper Mint plant from the patio and add that to it.  I'll let you know!

Anywho, Linds leaves for Canada tomorrow morning.  I'm off to Redcliff and Nudgee Beach on a 130km loop.  The plan is to bang out about 40km of pace lining, but last time we did that it turned out to be a shiat show race shelling anyone who wasn't prepared to go into serious hurt mode.  I did my part by pacing 'important' clients to the stop off point!  No. 1 Domestic baby!

Anywho, I hope it isn't snowing too bad.  But then again, you can shelter your self from the cold, but this heat is EVERYWHERE!  But my tan lines are still kicking ass!  Got tanning lights set up in the velodrome yet!? MUAHAHA!

Country Comparisons

I've been here for over 3 months now and I figured I'd do a little comparison between countries.  Honestly I'm just bored and trying to find something to do before my 9pm bed time.  Riding in the morning, need my beauty sleep!

Storms

Canada - City shutting blizzards

Australia - City Destroying Thunderstorms

Advantage Canada - What can I say?  I love shoveling and being 'that guy' with the clean driveway mid snow storm!

Holiday fruit

Canada - Cranberries I guess.

Australia - Cherries

Advantage Australia - Who doesn't like cherries???  Snacking on some right now suckas!

Riding

Canada - Indoor over half the year

Australia - packs of thousands every weekend

Deuce - it's a good switch up and getting fat playing video games is pretty awesome!

Tied score for now

Canada - 1 Australia - 1

Official Start of Summer

Well this is it folks.  Summer has begun in Ozz.  How's that Slop in Canada right about now?!  Man I don't miss riding to work in slush just to drink a cold starbucks!  Its about a million degrees here today with no letting up in sight.  Im sweating sitting here bloggin' and lets say I'm not wearing too much.

Yesturday's 2 hundo was a monster.  Not only were the km's mega but so were the hills!  Unfortunately for me our group of about 20 mostly consisted of 'elite' guys.  The pace was fast and the tempo up the 'easy' climbs was tough.  The first easy climb of the day was Beerumbum or something like that.  about 5km 4%.  I was 3rd wheel and people were talking all around me as I tried to stay focused on the wheel ahead of me.  Heart rate was maxed at 198 whilst other chit chated but I had to look tough, we were only 80km's in and had to look like I was good for 120 more!  From there we made our way to Woodford where we made our 2nd pit stop for the day.  The fear of Mt Mee was beginning to set in.  Because we were approaching from woodford, it would mean we would attack the backside of the hill.  The Dark Side!

She started off at an easy 8-10%  at the 120km mark for about a km before cresting.  Kind of like a tease, making me think, bah, this isn't that bad, what are these softies talking about?  Not that this is the easiest climb I've done, but I could bang this baby out no problemo!

After another tough roller, a sign pops out.  WARNING! CRASH AREA!  And then another one Mt Mee Tourist Drive 3.87km 15.67%.  WHOA NOW!  I look down at my cycling computer and the sign isn't lying.  The hill lingering between 14-16 and then 17-18 in the switchbacks.  I had to switch screens as to not get too depressed!  It was a big hard hill, but like the others, I found a good tempo and made it to the top.  The boys kept a good tempo through the rest of the Mt Mee Range which brought us to a good decent all the way to Dayboro.  If you look at the map, there are actually HUGE rolling hills between Mt Mee and Dayboro.  The steep climb is only the first part!

Mt Samson wasn't as bad as I thought.  Long but easy climbing.  Total Ascent for the day was 1900 meters and 200.4km.  Actually had to go around the block once to make sure I broke 200km!  Not like last time, 199.3.

Anywho, time to go sprawl naked on the bed to try and keep cool.  Man it's hot!

Later!