Rode to the top via the rollercoaster and carparts.I dumped my bottle at the top after taking a big swig and cruised down. Turned the bike around at the bottom and got underway. Well before half way my mouth was dry and I was regretting not having my bottle with me. It also seemed a bit dumb to be carrying a banana and a one square meal which would have been better things to leave at the top. At the stockyards I was 11.07 and down on my 22 minute time of a month ago. The top half was very windy, and I struggled - against the wind, the heat, and myself. I hit the seal at 22.38 and was pretty disappointed with it. I'd intended to do a second, and was pretty close to flagging, but after grabbing a mizone from a dairy in Brooklyn, and scoffing a great big jelly crocodile (70c worth ?!) I went up again. My heart wasn't in it though. I had to dab a couple of times in the first half after riding off the side of the track, and never really gave it heaps. I lost exactly one minute on the first half, and exactly one minute on the second half to clock in at 24.38.
Went down to Waitangi Park immediately after and watched the wacky wacky unicyclists. The 3-way sprint at the very end of the 10km looked even crazier than the rest of the race! Mad props to those crazy bastards!
