Bc Bike Race - Day 5 - sechelt to ....sechelt

Wakey wakey.....
fnghngghghghgg...
....
WAKEY WAKEY!!!
Nghhhh ......ok ok

Not such a good night but ok. Yesterdays intestinal troubles are
behind me, so to speak.

Is It raining??? Hmmm maybe.

We wait in line for breakfast and talk with the steed cycles lady. She
is green. As in she wears green. Everyday. I hope she has more than
one set of clothing. She smells ok so I guess so.

Mmmm pancakes, ham. I think of Bremblesd where I first had that combo
with " les towles" many years ago. I LIKE!!

It is raining. It rains harder. It's raining hard. My bike is missing.
Where's my bike. Have you seen my bike. Where's my &)&)&@@ing bike!!!
Did YOU take my bike???? Hey Simon --- of course I have yor bike.
Thanks Joest. ( the Nike live in an enclosed place overnite)

The Canadian anthem plays. It's Canada day. Yay Canada. We are off.
It's raining and I font like it. One bit. Half way round the world to
bike in rain??? Puhleasd. I do t care how good the singletrack
is....can't you see it's )@£)ing RAINING? are you a duck? Dont you
care.

We ride thru a mining sorting site. Big kick ass cat truck (sorry i
dont know if it's a 645B or D or a 634 F. Dopey can tell you)

The first up. It's sandy. We try to rise but fail after it churns into
a beach. We walk and push. I'm hot. I can't see. My glasses have
steamed up. I'm soaked. Yay.

First single track and it's fast and straight. It gets real
interesting real soon as we get a free lower body wah... We have to
wade through a raging torrent. Well, a small creek reall. Still over
my knees though, so kike and oscar are up to their armpits!!!

I have been craft ythough. I have removed my socks. I put them back on
feeling smug that my feet are a tiny bit less wet than everyone
elses. Barely.

I plod on. Mostly on the bike. Sometimes on foot.

It's still raining.

We have two climbs to do today. 500 and 760m starting from ses level.
I have to remember to eat and drink. Thinking this I stuff a Canada
bar: (maple syrup and nuts clif bar). I have to fight to keep it down.
Sooo many bars these last 5 days Im not sure I can do it. It stays
down. Barely.

We ride down sweet singletrack. Up down left right in out down back
twisty turny. Add water for a little more fun. Strangely I have not
fallen off yet, at all Could this be the day?

Aid one arrives. Still not having much fun. Cold. Miserable weather.
Dopey says I have to stat positive. Screw him. But he's right. We
climb. I get warm. My smile returns. Sort of.

We enter dense forest. I feel like an old person....my glasses are
perched on the end of my nose to get a bir of air flow to remove thd
mist . For my troubles i get a poje inthe ete from a young fir tree
branch. Curses. I thought I couldn't see before but now I really can't
see. Meye smarts and tears...
....my glasses are long gone now better to ride sans glasses at all.
For my trouble I get mud in my eye. This ride is really shaping up.

Voilà. We are riding nory shore style platforms, ramps and bridges,
albeit low ones. Imagine planks raised off the ground and above
obstacles. Add chickenwure for grip. Remove brain or add testes to
ride. Especially when wet.

U ride some. Dopey rides more. NASCAR rides even more.

Fun. Im actually beginning to have run again. Legs are good, back is
creaky but holdingish.

And I ridebrhibd Chris the UNICYCLE guy. He using front. I am in
front. Repeat. UNBELIEVABLE. he is doing the slightly easier but still
challenging " challenge course. He has a 2 speed unicycle. He changes
gear with hisheel on a button on the bottombracket. He has YouTube
video. He does free rise. On his unicycle. Amazing.

And now the downhill. 10 km. Oo laa laaaaaaaa! Bestial!! Fantastisch.
Wunderbar. Abertisch. Bloody ripper mate. Sweeet. Ossum.
Aaaaawwwwesssommmmmee man.

Fast. Grip. Lean the bike. No leN it further. Oohhh that's a steep
drop. Bye bye. Pedal pedal pedal. Lift. Push. Bridge. Whooaaahhh. Mud
- none. Loam. Lots of looooooaaaammmm. Steep fast flowy. Ever lasting.

Missile is back. I can and I WILL hang on to the handlebar. I don't
catch dopey though. I have dome traffic. Mostet me past. Bitchy bitch
didn't. I asked nicely. She fell but then threw herself back into my
path. Ok bb your going down. She was not cool. Enough of bb. Bye bye bb.

Joest is folmong me. Better not mess up. Is my hair ok? Aarghhhh my
stupid foot comes out the pedall NOW and he has to get it on film.
Grrrr.

And we are down with 3 kmto go. I am fly- ing now and lexvr Dopey in
my virtual dust fir once. I catch up with the green ladies. They pedal
well but fall all the time. I almost run into them as they fell right
in front of me on big loose round slippery when wet rock field... mmmm
yummy for me, not for them.

Finally a great day. Slippery when wet can airy of be fun...heh heh!!!

The footnote is that oscar was angry with Kike and ran into him AFTER
the finish line. Hah. Take THAT. Result: taco for dinner. Wheel number
two for Kike. Ask oscar shag happened. Kike: bruised and bashed and
bone too happy. But Kike is Kike. A smile and joke and well, tomorrow
is another day.

Indeed

We do rip 4:23 20th overall
70's crop 3:40somethkng 11th overall.

Ferry
2x monster burgers for dopey and I
bus to Sqwamish
HOT SHOWER
Hot tub
Steam bath
Dinner
Bike clean
Prizes but not for me snif

Ps Dopey caught a free shimano tee shirt 2 nites ago on his birthday
at the after dinner prize giving: he gas a chance to won one of 5
COMPLETE 2011 xtr gruppos with wheelset. He has a 5/35 chance of
winning. Go dopey go.

Goodnight.

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