By kicking our arses on a gnarly bike ride of course!
Okay, not really gnarly, but pretty challenging for us. We rode round from Burdans Gate, past Pencarrow Light and almost to Baring Head.
It’s mostly flat all the way, but harder than a normal ride because it’s a gravel track. We rode 40 minutes there, and then 50 minutes back because of the head wind.Amazing scenery – a lot of ships were wrecked on this coast. It’s all quite bleak, and yet the city is just over the other side of the harbour.
Stopped at the ‘car gate’ to catch our breath – and for me to wash some of the crud out of my brakes after getting stuck in some swampy stuff.
Craig tried to catch a pic of me taking a pee behind a bush. Luckily he was too slow so all you get to see are my legs, not my hairy butt! 
I found the last 20 minutes hard work (not helped by a downpour of rain) and think I would rate this the toughest ride I’ve done. Boy I loved it though.
It’s so cool to be with someone who wants to do these things with me – and I’m sure that pushes me into doing more things too.
Weight this morning was 80.2kg, so managed to keep steady over a couple of fairly hectic weeks.
10 comments:
What a great weekend :) And you ARE lucky to have someoen to do these cool things with !
I have done that ride when coming home from riding two "Big Coast" rides. Are you planning on doing the "Big Coast"? Its usually in February and is awesome!
Oh, wow! I admire your efforts!
I like the blog - will have to catch up. :)
Great piccies! Well done on the maintaining - woohoo :)
Cool photos... top one looks like a postcard photo.
Wohooo on maintaining...
Love Chubbymum
Yes you do look as happy as you feel *wink*.
The photo's are lovely.
Loved where you stayed in Wanganui.
What an awesome ride! I would love to do something like that one day.
I just wanted to thank you for all your comments lately, and thanks for thinking of my boy. His team lost their grand final unfortunately, but they were beaten by the better team on the day, and they all enjoyed the game so much they felt like winners in the end anyway.
Glad you had such a great weekend.
What a super weekend you had. Love that piece of coastline. Walked round there many moons ago!!!!! Have a great rest of week :)
At least your hairy butt will be more toned after that ride.
You look FANTASTIC...
Yep, like 'M' the hairy butt comment didn't escape my attention. You oughtta get that seen to. ;)
Thanks for your beautiful comments on my blog lately. They mean alot to me . We are both blessed beyond belief right now, aren't we?
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