This is the first time i have been to Mt Beauty and it was beautiful!! it was an absolutely perfect weekend for riding downhill with a bunch of good people and lots of laughs!!Day one for me consisted of rocking up to mt beauty on the Friday Arvy and heading up to the track to see what kind of madness i was in for over the weekend..i did this by stupidly pushing my 20kg bike up the hill and i struggled! got my first little injury by walking into a blackberry bush and it looks like i got attacked by a cat..but no big deal.pushed up further to the first rock garden which looked easy but it was a bit tricky.. poor old mate Mundy carried my bike up so i could ride down... and i just walked my bike down again.. im a sook!the bottom of the track was pretty fun, bit like a crazy bmx track with berms and off camber sections.and speaking of bmx tracks we also went to THE bmx track and had a small session, mainly just a photo op so i could wear my sickmaxx t-shirt!!The rest of the crew rocked up later in the day and we all went to the pub and had a nice meal..chilled out back at our sweet house watching hot rod and other shenanigans.. then it was bed time in preparation for the first day of riding!!!
DAY 2- Practice day.. the day started off with lots of loud noises and annoying boys!so i sent them away to the bakery to have some quiet time and ease into the day.we all headed up to the hill and i jumped on the first shuttle with Jesse cos i didnt want to miss out! was slightly nervous but also had no idea what was on the track as i hadn't seen the top.there were a few tricky section up the top with rocks and berms and step downs, but managed to get through it. stopped at one corner and tried to walk down the b line and dropped my bike and... tripped over it and got pedal scrape up my shin..bit of blood but was ok..i thought. now it looks like i got attacked by 2 cats!went to the first aid tent after first run and wasn't even on my bike to get the injury! they thought it was hilarious that i am a flight attendant and ride dh for fun and how good my legs will look in a skirt with my scabby shin! ahh well! had a few more runs,and Lucy chased me down the hill which was good cos it got me goin and made me do alot more than i had been doing and was good to link the track up except for the stupid b line at the rock garden! it was scary as hell but somehow was really fun too. no crashes for the day so its good news!we all went back to the shack and attempted to have a beer but we all ended up on water! how lame! it was a warm and dusty day with lots of riding so a smart idea.Lucy cooked us up a big feast of lasagne to give us some energy for race day!i lived up to my true bogan reputation with my coopers pale longneck in a paper bag and scratches all up my shin in jesses new moccasins!
DAY 3-race daythe day started off EARLY! some people were way too keen to get to the track.. i woke up reasonably sore and very relaxed and not in a rush to get back on the bike.. to tell u the truth i was damn nervous cos i knew what i was in for today!!!!slowly got myself together and threw myself down the hill again and it wasnt too bad. got my scribble and thats all i wanted so i didnt over do it in the practice runs thats for sho..elite women qualifying run came around and we were lucky enough to get the troopy to the top rather than pushing our bikes up the last bit of the hill where the bus droppped us off.so off we went, with me heading off last, and i felt way more relaxed knowing that no one was goin to come up behind me and scare the shit out of me!did pretty well but a few slips in the loose corners and on the stupid b line off camber ants nest!!!!that made me angry cos i felt stupid! but punched out the rest of the run pretty well and qualified (7/10).. which was not too bad since i was expecting to come last as i havent ridden in a looong time! like 3 times in the last year and a half!the confidence levels were pretty low but just quietly that gave me a little back ;)we had a huge break between runs so got my camera and went up the hill taking some shots of the guys, watching them all tear into a berm and all nearly crashing. one guy went throught the bunting and got it all wrapped up around his deraileur, got back on and finished the track with a trail of about 3 m of sram bunting..was pretty funny!i was convincing myself not to race cos i thought well im still alive so maybe i should keep it that way rather than racing again and coming off..of course the guys thought it was the stupidest idea in the world and i also decided on the 'why not'attitude and did the race run, i really didnt want to embarrass myself and get a DNS. so went down again tryin to keep my cool so i didnt come off as the track was pretty blown out and getting loose.was taking it easy until some young punks yelled at me to get off the brakes! it upset me so i got into it a bit harder and got down the track without any crashes! also knowing i ahd 2 people behind me this time and didnt want to get taken over!so results came in and i DIDNT come last! pretty stoked with that result, but unfortunately i bet my freind lucy...guess that just gives us both the competition against each other now! lucy is a little gun on a 24" bike so she does super well and if she stayed on the bike that would help haha :)anyway, we all had a good day with ben hardman taking a win on the expert podium, jesse coming close and mundy bet crundy and i bet lucy so its all on between tha gang! all fun tho.also to mention that the worst injury of the weekend was a SPECTATOR!!! a camerman got a bit close to the track and a young guy got a bit loose on the last corner and took him out hard and left him with a badly broken collar bone! we all came out with some kind of minor injury but i would have to say my injuries were all "off the bike" including standing on a tool box lid and smahing it into my sore shin then hitting my good knee on the soccor mums car! idiot!!it was time to head back to reality after an awesome weekend with a wonderful crew.. shout out to jesse (superted) beare for driving me and my car back to the city as i am the worst night time driver and freak out about all the bright lights!!THANKS GUYS!!>lucy,crundy,mundy,superted,brett and the hardman! :)
little oskar!!
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