a sunny day in Martinborough

Wild Welly was on the Saturday

VIC Cycles Martinborough Charity Fun Ride.  was on the Sunday,

Jude had planned to do this and for me after last years effort I had decided to give this one miss but had planned just going out for a nice ride somewhere over there, Apparently it's my fault, Jude has succumbed to one the cold/flu thingy's that is going around and is barking like a dog and her coach told her not to race/ride, well as we had already sort of committed to going over taking Lisa & Conner we went over picking conner up from the bottom of Haywards yes he rode out there from Churtonpark after racing at the wild welly the day before and Lisa from here place we had a nice trip over the event Jude managed to get her number allocated to Conner as he had not entered ( hadn't planed on doing it till the day before when he talked into it)

Lisa and Conner set of with 115k starters which also included Gav Tony and Angry Clive, and about 1/2hr latter I set off and rode the 67 km section of the 115 in the reverse direction, not sure but I felt for me this was the harder direction as it was less sheltered from the nor wester (head) wind and was heading the wrong way on all the false flats, anyway it took me about 2:20 - 2:30 to do this ride 69ks in all with a wrong turn and my legs were really suffering from the day before, with a couple of cramp attacks on last few short climbs

anyway by the time I had got back to the van Lisa was already there she had pulled the pin at the 48km mark (results show as second fastest of those who puuled the pin at that point & fastest female) as she too was sufering form the day before, Did I mention Gav Conner, Tony and Angry also raced at the wild welly

Just a couple of quotes I found somewhere on the internet

Angry : Am tired now... 12 Hours of Wild Welly, followed by 115km road race today

Conner :If only the roadies knew we'd just done 12hrs of intervals...

Angry :You want to hear something else funny, Connor will hate me for this but....
Connor comes up next to me and says hey is that Kris Gemmel out front in the white top, I said errr no thats Joel 

Joel: so your the guy the R&R kit? don't think i yelled at you.. much  

Conner: Grrr! Still reeling from the dirty roadies boxing me in the gutter and you getting me by 100th of a second! Was another good day in the sun :

Angry: Road racing is about final position not time  

Conner:  Thanks clive... At least I was sticking with someone who'd actually ridden in a road race before! Tony had tucked in behind my wheel figuring I'd know what I was doing and would lead him through the race!

and the comment of the day went something like this " I'm gutted you two beat me, you only passed me when I sat up 20 metres before the finish", Tony to Clive and Conner. it was both Tony's and Conners first road event,  Clive, Conners & Tony finish 15,17&18th in the main bunch which included 3rd through to 55th and Gav finshed 56th with a flat front tyre that started going down about 5 ks out of town, he rode the last 500metres or so on the grass once the tyre popped of the rim. There was 425 finishes. in the 115km event

as per usual the BBQ was great with venison patties, sausages, lots of salad & cookies

we dropped Conner of at Pauatahanui giving him a approx 50min ride home