What a way to spend an Easter weekend

J and I spent Saturday and Sunday in the Mt Majura forest in the A.C.T. being support crew for Spoonboy at the Australian 24 hour Solo mountainbike championships.It was exhausting. Otoh, the camaraderie between the support crews was a beautiful thing and both J and I really appreciated it.Of course, we didn’t go and actually ride anywhere, but we still wound up with sore muscles from static positioning and dodgy posture throughout the event.Fortunately for us we didn’t have to drive back to Sin City (Sydney) yesterday, but were able to crash at J and Spoonboy’s sister’s place in Gundaroo a mere 40km away. Boy oh boy were we glad of that! Despite being able to grab 40 minutes sleep (0400 to 0440) yesterday morning, we realised that we should try to stay awake for a few more hours until after dinner to try to get the circadian rhythms and body clock back on track. So after a beautiful meal at Crowe’s Wine Bar (stumbling distance, fortunately) we crashed out. 8:30pm and I’m not sure whether we were awake when our heads hit the pillow, but we slept through until birdsong woke us this morning… and then crashed out again .. image:: /images/smilies/icon_smile.gif

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Of course, having a few glasses of a major sponsor’s product last night didn’t hurt our sleeping either.Managed to get almost 12 hours sleep, had a leisurely breakfast and some quality time with our nephew and then headed back north.Not sure when the results from the event will be posted on their website (our rider came 19th overall out of 61 or 62) but when the results are up I’ll point to them along with my photo gallery from the event. I managed to take about 700 photos…. surely some of them have turned out ok

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