Turn that frown upside down

Well what a fantastic weekend. The depression of not being on the bike for five days was pedalled away by the glory of riding my dream machine. Saturday morning she got a sprucing up, a super bike wash followed by lubing and care. While outside cleaning I watched a group of the Upper Hutt boys head to the summit of the Akas. I love where I live, I can see all the hundreds of people heading up the first hill of the 20k stretch to the top. Some going nuts like their about to win KOM and some wheezing with a cadence of 40rpm about to fall off.
Following that I headed out to the PNP race in Whitemans Valley, I rode with C grade guys, pretty glad to the pace was hot, 25km was a pretty lame distance for me though, I felt bad about it so next weekend I will do B grade.
Sunday morning I forced Nick out of bed at 7.30am for a good long ride. We meet with a couple of the other Upper Hutt blokes and headed up Akatarawa Road. the Wellington Vets TT was on, finished atop of Akas so was quite good to watch this while riding. It was a circus at the top with all the finishers, and 20 4x4 all letting the air out of their tyres to have a party in the bush. We headed down the other side with Laura, a new strong rider from Christchurch now living in Wellington. Clearly I need to practice my descending, I was so slow down the other side that Nick came back thinking I had crashed, but nope, I was happily dawdling along down the road wondering how up everyone was. Had a nice northely on the otherside to push us home and up the Paekakiriki Hill. I am really beginning to like that hill. Such a good challenge. As the others left for home Nick and I headed up Moonshine, my legs were screaming at me by this point. They were not happy. I painfully made my way to the top with Nick patiently ahead and felt incredibly good after my 100k for the day. I just need to keep the distance in the legs, remind them that it keeps coming and that hills are my friend. Looking forward to some more  reasonable weather and free time to turn those pedals around, mean time the bikes in the shop getting some more TLC from the great team at the BIKE HUTT. Oooo and a teeny bunny rabbit jumped out at me on SH1. There's something weird happening with me and animals when on my bike. I'm preparing for you magpies, you wont get the better of me this year, you'll see.