Tweed Coast Treadly » surf-n-sand

So much

fingers — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:50:59 +0000

Been a while…. spent a couple of weeks camping and surfing through Hungry Gate and Minni Waters with my daughter, during January… resting my knee but still exercising long walks and some big paddles.

During this trip my dad breathed his last so I will not be able to achieve the goal of the 3 day Ride to Grafton for a visit this fathers day it just wasn’t to be…

The new SPD peddles and sandals seem to be helping with the knee pain… but am still taking it easy as I do not want to have to give up riding due to excessive pain. It is still quite noticeable whilst riding but no longer gets worse as the ride extends. Also the post ride inner burning seems to have lessened considerably.

Maybe it is just arthritis IE old age…. hope this is not a sign of greater things to come…

As there have been few notable rides other than the continuous cruising to the shops or Hastings Headland for a surf check I didn’t bother posting in the diary.

Here’s Humphrey

fingers — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 07:40:27 +0000

I decided today to get the old Malvern Star Bogart out for a surf check at the headland. Well the ride was OK but noticably slower and heavier to handle, like driving a ’64 holden compared to a modern jap car. Glad it was only 9kms against a mild Easterly. The cloud cover and lower temperatures are very pleasant.

Aside, the carpet snake is back stalking prey on the ramp onto the verandah.

The yellow bit in the image is a medium vegimite jar on the ground which will stay where it is for a bit longer… Creating a swift switch foot shuffle as you notice it again as you are walking past it for the umpteenth time!

Bike2Bruns Ride Report C-

fingers — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:05:27 +0000

Well what could you say? The event, to me was a quite over-rated affair.

A number of standouts being..

Totally unco-ordinated
Losing a bike rider less than 5kms from the start!
No signs or signallers at critical intersections.

these were for the ride itself, which featured for me at least a couple of brushes with Eastern Brown Snakes and a 2 foot Goanna although NO Magpies! Also a long slog against an ever increasing NE headwind on the return ride (25-40 km/hr) with no shelter by anything resembling hills!

The Event, at which I lasted 10 minutes, was also, as classified by me, as…

General feeling about the event - “A big group hug, with indifference to outsiders”.
Lacking general information for “Guests“ (ie upon arrival, which was done in drips and drabs by the riders of Route #4 because of the lost rider [who was found safe and well riding with the leader], there was no marshaling areas etc)
The person on the registration desk at the end was more interested in talking to their BUG mates than providing any pertinent information, even when queried!
There was far too limited secure/safe parking
Everything seemed disjointed and chaotic.
Rider leaders etc were more interested in BUG fundraising by way of a raffel than the actual Bike2Bruns event.
If you didn’t want to join their BUG then and there you were conveyed a pleasant feeling of irrelevance with a casual air of indifference. (ie left standing there with the same “You are dismissed” feeling you get after receiving a tongue lashing from a headmaster.)

All up a nice enough very FLAT 60 kilometer ride spoilt slightly by the addition of a lot of unnecessary crap. It will be quite a while before I bother to undertake another group ride such as this.

Out-a-sorts

fingers — Mon, 26 May 2008 05:39:01 +0000

Today’s ride saw me trundle down to Hastings Headland on the “bitsa”… what greeted me was an inviting ocean. The swell was clean and mellow, a very, very light ENE blowing, the temperature 24°C… and I thought why not! So rode home and changed into my mothballed “springsuit wetty” and grabbed my much neglected board and rode back down, board under my arm, for a pleasant paddle before riding home again before the temperature began to fall. 20km’s in all…

While drying off I watched a couple of whales making their way North for some winter birthing.