Sneak preview

It's always good to see a course before you race it, it's even better when the trails flow like the ones at Woodend.

Sunday morning with too few hours sleep and a belly full of dodgy servo food I met a group of riders at the Wombat trail car park. As the seconds ticked by the group grew and grew, eventually we had ~20 blokes astride their bikes rolling down the fire road.

In the three and a half hours we rode my tyres never once touched single track I'd seen before. Some of it was ridiculously fresh cut, some of it was like old hidden treasure, but it was all a blast.



It was great to see everyone put some elbow grease (sweat) into fixing up a bridge broken by moto riders on their heavy bikes. The result was an awesome, hard-wearing surface.



Here now at the end of this post I must now take a moment to say that I completely chickened out of the gap jump. I Neil Robinson, chickened out of the easy gap jump that only required a moderate speed.... because I was a little scaredy cat. There, I've said it, I hope you're all happy!