I'll admit, I've caught the bug for this enduro-event lark good and proper now ( Read more... )

Lucky me. Last weeks race, which I didn't attend due to my being treated to a lovely meal by THE WIFETM for my birthday, had timing problems, so they wrote it off and it didn't count. Which meant I didn't miss the triple points handicap week as it was run again last night ( Read more... )

So 'twas off to the You Yangs on Saturday last to pound my bike around the lovely national park thereabouts in the 33km Yowie (mountain bike marathon) run by the Geelong Mountain Bike Club. Four of us entered and headed down there en masse, but three of us were significantly harder than me and entered the 66km version. But all were too scared to ( Read more... )

Jesus, this one was a bloody slog again. Plenty of rain during the day made the course a bit sloppy, but it was drying out in the welcome evening sun ( Read more... )

So I've been racing my bike down at the weekly Dirt Crits run by Full Gas Promotions down at Westgate Park in Melbourne ( Read more... )

Jesus, if I'd have know how tough settling in to Oz was going to be I'd have never signed up for this shit!

Things are strained Chez Pindon at present. THE WIFETM has a boss who is a management retard, my work is full of upheaval and TOTALLY different to what I'm used to, we appear to have little to no free time as one or both of us is in the gym/ ( Read more... )

Having thought for so long it'd be a piece of piss to settle into a new country, I think it's time to admit that it isn't.


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Between the last post and this was Cambodia, which was awesome, and Laos, which was awesome too, and the trip from northern Thailand back to Bangkok but I can't really be arsed to do all that because it was ages ago. But for the highlights ( Read more... )

....tomorrow.

11 hours packed into a little minibus.

FUCKING GREAT.

So we left Bangkok a while ago now. I forget how long to be honest ( Read more... )