Happy Easter Everyone!

The Grape Ride was awesome as usual, though I won’t lie, it would have been awesomer (is that even a word?) if I was racing.  The weather was great again albeit a little windy and I had company for the almost 4 hours we had to wait for the girls to finish the 101km race.  Though I didn’t participate this year, we took my bike too as there was an hour-long bunch ride organised for the Sunday morning.  The girls’ bottoms were a tad on the sore side come Sunday morning so Claire and I ended up just going for a 40 minute ride of our own which was cool!  A wine factory tour and being I.D’d for a lotto ticket on the way home finished the weekend nicely

Seeing everyone, big, small, old and young (the winner was only 17 years old and beat the previous record by over 5 minutes!) out there really switched on my motivation to get myself back in shape.  It’s a tough time of year with all the chocolate and hot cross buns rubbing themselves in my face, but I have biked to work twice this week (9km each way), been for a 30km ride and been to the gym twice and it’s only Wednesday!  Was a bit tired today so had the day off.

My hip is still holding up well.  I have no pain when riding, or afterwards.  I did have some discomfort with abduction exercises at the gym today and am still considerably weaker on my left side.  Have ‘twanged’ it a couple of times when going to turn forgetting that my foot is planted, but it all seems to happen laterally so still thinking it’s all muscular.

I am looking forward to a long weekend this weekend.  I have Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday all off work!  I am going camping with Dad so am quite excited about that.  We are meeting at Te Moana Gorge again since it is such a lovely spot and holding out for nice weather.

Wishing you all a happy Easter and keep safe on those roads if you are travelling!

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