Kiwi Brevet

Colin · *by **Colin** on Wed 10/Feb/10 9:24am*

Or not

Scaredy_Cat · *by **Scaredy_Cat** on Wed 10/Feb/10 9:32am*

wgtngrl wrote:
dented wrote:Does anyone else look at the tracker map, and start going "C',mon you guys, its only 2 miles to get to there, hurry up!". Like, all the time.

Yes, and 'hurry up and hit the damn button again!'

No, never... :paranoid:

I'm not hooked... I can stop any time I want :paranoid:

XCguy · *by **XCguy** on Wed 10/Feb/10 9:56am*

.I. wrote:
XCguy wrote:Great pics and update PK

It looks like Ollie has a good 10-12 km lead from Andy at the moment, well on their way up the Molesworth. It's going to be an interesting day between our two local lads
but there is a 8min giv or take a minute time gap between those lastest locations so the true gap is a lot less than it shows

Yeah but I took that into consideration. Ollie is now 20km odd km in front and their current updates are only 1min apart. I wonder if Ollie is pulling out or if Andy has had to stop. EDIT: I just checked the details and Andy hasn't stopped. Ooooo, it's getting interesting. How can I get any work done when this is happening? :blush:

Go Ollie, go. No, go Andy. Go Ollie. Go get him Andy. Oh man, why do the two in front have to both be locals?

mfw · *by **mfw** on Wed 10/Feb/10 10:22am*

XCguy wrote:Go Ollie, go. No, go Andy. Go Ollie. Go get him Andy. Oh man, why do the two in front have to both be locals?

Actually Andy grew up Blenheim didn't he?, but as he helped me with Crater Rim training advice I am gunning for him also

XCguy · *by **XCguy** on Wed 10/Feb/10 10:33am*

mfw wrote:
XCguy wrote:Go Ollie, go. No, go Andy. Go Ollie. Go get him Andy. Oh man, why do the two in front have to both be locals?

Actually Andy grew up Blenheim didn't he?

Yeah he's a Blenheim lad but he has been one of ours for a few years now

swtchbckr · *by **swtchbckr** on Wed 10/Feb/10 11:03am*

Ollie's got quite the lead on Andy now...

znomit · *by **znomit** on Wed 10/Feb/10 11:23am*

But where is sifter?

Rik · *by **Rik** on Wed 10/Feb/10 11:28am*

ScottMorris wrote:I put together a replay video of the Kiwi up to early this morning. Check it out here:

http://vimeo.com/9327048

I tried embedding it here on the forums but it didn't work.

The videos are always a fun way to see who likes sleep deprivation and who doesn't.

Magiced

Amazing video!

Colin · *by **Colin** on Wed 10/Feb/10 11:30am*

znomit wrote:But where is sifter?

With Simon I would expect.

This on the Brevet blog site

John Randal with Simon Kennett and Chris[?], 08:14 Wed in Hanmer: "Just arrived in Hanmer. Had a short sleep in Culverton. Feeling pretty hammered - but, on the home stretch. So... phoowh - Blenhiem here we come."

Dominator · *by **Dominator** on Wed 10/Feb/10 12:15pm*

Jane and her Mum have gone for a drive up the Awatere to get some pics and relay progress as coverage allows. Will pass on anything interesting.
Ollie is the best kind of freak! Might see if he wants to hit Whites Bay Loop this arvo.....

graeme_mtb · *by **graeme_mtb** on Wed 10/Feb/10 1:07pm*

Dominator wrote:Will pass on anything interesting.

Would be interested to hear how Thomas's makeshift bike shoe repair is holding up. One of his cleats fractured last night

which is why he retreated to Culverdon rather than pressing onto Hanmer. Also he had lost his rear light up the Wharfedale somewhere which made night riding on a SH a bit dodgy. He was going try to tape his bike shoe to the pedal in Hanmer.

XCguy · *by **XCguy** on Wed 10/Feb/10 1:22pm*

Dominator wrote:Jane and her Mum have gone for a drive up the Awatere to get some pics and relay progress as coverage allows. Will pass on anything interesting.
Ollie is the best kind of freak! Might see if he wants to hit Whites Bay Loop this arvo.....

LOL

I was thinking before that he will easily have time to do a lap or two of Jentree on his way through Taylors Pass. Just one hill to go now and Mr Whalley is home sweet home :thumbsup:

Lynskey · *by **Lynskey** on Wed 10/Feb/10 1:25pm*

graeme_mtb wrote:
Dominator wrote:Will pass on anything interesting.

Would be interested to hear how Thomas's makeshift bike shoe repair is holding up. One of his cleats fractured last night which is why he retreated to Culverdon rather than pressing onto Hanmer. Also he had lost his rear light up the Wharfedale somewhere which made night riding on a SH a bit dodgy. He was going try to tape his bike shoe to the pedal in Hanmer.

Are you Thomas' coach? I've done some training with him and the man can certainly get along. Looking at his stats it seems he did around 295km in the first 24hrs, must be hella painful to back that up with continued effort. I'd be a little afraid to see what sort of repairs Thomas has made re: taping his shoe to his pedal, I wouldn't be overly surprised if he's bonded it with some sort of awful xmas neck tie, that'd be his style. How's he feeling? I got a few txts from him in the earlier days saying he was finding the heat and sandflies a bit troublesome but haven't heard from him so far, he must be well hurting by now.

An interesting anecdote to give those who don't know Thomas a bit of insight into his colourful personality (in the same vain as the backgrounds above). I did a road cycle race once and went out wayyyy too hard. Thomas had warned me not to follow the leaders, but alas I had followed the leaders. He was accompanying me for fun, I was pretty new to cycling so my race pace was a nice Saturday tootle for him. It was about 60km into the 150km round the mountain race that I finally blew. In hindsight i'd done well to follow the leaders for that long, but it sure was stupid, especially since he'd explicitly warned me not to do this. It was raining and we were going up the false flat toward Kaponga and I was severely hurting. It was here that Thomas came up alongside me with another friend and they both informed me they were putting me in my box. They acted out putting a large box around me and then locking a key and said "We'll talk to you when you're ready to come out, man". Then they went forward and formed a nice little pair in front of me so that they could drag my sorry ass home the last 90km. I wasn't in any mood to thank them at the time, but it was a pretty damn decent thing to do. Since that day we've had a kind of running joke about how I went out too hard, but I've also found out a lot about that particular box. Thomas tells me that he's spent so much time in his that he's begun to decorate it. He talks of fantastic purples and oranges and polka dots and other bizarre material that only he could come up with. I have no doubt that he's securely in that box right now, and doing a bit of redecorating i'm sure :lol: