Need a Cup of Concrete

Get comfortable and grap a cup of tea, this update is pretty likely to turn into one of the longest novels you've ever attempted to read.

Well since last time I've had a few hiccups to be honest. The achilles proble I was suffering with turned out to be a strain due to the tightness in my calves. After spending my life savings on physio I got put right but not in time for Southland which was pretty gutting. Still headed down and helped the team out here n there just helping them out with recovery and filling up the van with my main man octane etc. Looked like your typical hard man's Southland tour from what I saw. Wish Icould have been right in there. Check out this photo of our van on the last day.

For those of you that don't know the van was pimped out with polka dots because one of my team mate's Jo Chapman won the Polka dot jersey (King of the Mountains). Jo also manged a 2nd place on a stage and Gatey pulled a 3rd on a stage so it was a pretty successful tour for the team. Even tour rookie Tom Francis got his share of TV time.

About this time I got a new job as a bulding labourer for Cornerstone Construction which keeps the cash rolling in but does stop me training as much as I'd like to. So a few weeks after Southland I started the slow buildup again, this time on the new rig thanks to EMC, Zipp and Sram. Check it:

So to test out my new baby I went down to the final round of benchmark in Chch. The race wasn't overly fats and the team raced smart and we ended up with most of our team up the road. Brendon Sharratt was the star of our team finishing about 5th or 6th, taking second overall. For me, I did what I could for the team before disappearing out the ass because of my lack of fitness.

Unfortunately before the race, I kicked a piece of glass which went through my shoe and cut my toe. I thought it was sweet and hard manned it but after a few days it was getting pretty sore so I paid a visit to old Dr Jolly who reckoned there wasn't still glass in it but it was full of some luscious succulent puss which meant it was pretty infected. So onto the anibiotics and not being able to wear shoes meant more time off the rig.

Finally finished the antibiotics today and have knocked up a couple of rides lately so the fitness is coming back...hopefully in time to get some form for Vineyards and Elites. Fingers crossed that there's no more unexpecteds in the next few weeks.

Running out of sharns.
Peace