The Long Training Rides

The past 2 months have flown by. The weeks are filled with hard and easy rides during the week, then long days in the saddle on the weekends.

3 weeks ago Evan and I travelled to Central Victoria for the Bendigo 6 Hour. A great few days of fun rides around Castlemaine, where I found I was either over the front wheel or over the back of the saddle for all of the rides....great times of technical, flowing trails.

The 6 Hour was held in our old backyard in Sedgwick. For 2.5 years our property backed onto the trails of Sedgwick State Forest, and I had so much fun enjoying these trails again. 6 hours of hard-packed singletrack/fire trails and rocks. I found the course physically demanding, but so much fun. I finished 2nd behind Jess - I was pretty shattered but glad of the outcome.

Since this race I have been spending my weekends on long rides. Below are a couple of photos from yesterday's ride out the back of Nana Glen, heading towards Lowanna. Hard climbs, fast technical descents. Thanks to Boris, the local endurance motorbike man, for all the great single track in the middle of nowhere - makes the 1.5hr climbing worth while!

Have come a long way already, with still a lot more climbing to go.