Hey guys here is an update from my weekend. It was the final race of the Galaxy Travel N-Duro Race Series and I was out to try win all 3 races. The previous 2 races had some of my main competitors but this race it was just me battling the juniors so should have been the easier race... At the moment I'm sticking to a pretty strict and strenuous endurance phase and Saturday I clocked up a 5 and half hour ride, so I was going into this race a little tired to say the least, but the previous week I did a road race on the Sunday after a 6 hour ride Saturday and an engagement party into the small hours and felt alright, so I was quietly confident I was going to recover over night.
The track I had designed for this race was 15kms of gravels to start off with so it was a bit of a bunch ride, on the 1st climb I let my cousin Brad Jones set the pace and he was going quick enough to pull myself and him off the front, I lead into the No Brains decent a very technical never ridden decent, I hadn't been down it for a year or so until this week I had a few laps of it. I pulled a gap down here and into the next climb I just rode at tempo until the bunch of boys caught back up to me, as they me caught I had had time to refuel the tanks and put in a big attack going off the front and after a few mins I had lost sight of the others and soon lost sight of Brad.
It was a long way to the end from here only half the race had gone by and I was off the front with no idea how close anyone was, With 15km to go I started to fizz out and feel the last 3 weeks catching up with me, on the last climb up Direct road one of the steeper climbs in the forest I looked back and noticed Brad so once again I had to put down the hammer to secure the win. Stoked to win all 3 races at the end of my 4 week training blocks this last one has been big and i'm bloody tired now, rest week on its way.
After the race Ra introduced me to Tony and Paris from Magellan GPS these guys have come on board with N-Duro events as a sponsor and after talking to them for a short time they offered me a Magellan Switch Up GPS its a bike, running and Swimming GPS its off the scale I haven't stopped playing with it since they gave it to me. I cant thank them enough for my new toy.
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A quick update on Katie, She is doing well after a little bit of a set back, some thing happened to the nerve in the operation and her legs just wouldn't work very frustrating and upsetting for her. She has weened off her morphine but is still popping a shit load of pain killers a day, every day is roller coaster with the ups and downs. Today she rang me to tell me she walked 1 km down the road and back :-) but mainly hangs out in bed the rest of the day. She will be back :-) its just taking some time as we expected with such a big surgery, I'm heading back to Auckland next week to see her and her progress.
Cheers
Carl
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