Waikawa 630am 15 hardy riders ready to journey 540km to Mahia peninsula…
Yay: lots of familiar friendly faces at the start line; strong southerly tail wind!; awesome sunny fast section on beach; pizza and Powerade in waimarama and feeling good on subsequent hill! (Also a hose there to wash bike of mud… see boo) Finding Guy on that hill and then finding an awesome campsite tucked away by the river at 715pm. Also yay, whenever I changed to small chain ring and chain didn’t fall off. Yay doing 190km.
Boo: cold showery southerlies most of day; many chain failings off; me falling off (blown off) and gravel rashing me; heinous cold rainy ride up through farm with mud that paralysed my bike.
Song: no songs only busy mind with work and renovation/imminent homelessness. Also refrain of ‘how can I stop chain falling off’ and ‘what is that mysterious noise’.