Sunday 17th May

Up early today with 8am sharp start planned.  headed outside to find Bugs and Silverfox cleaning the street and putting all the rubbish at my gate.  Headed off bang on 8am down the road and started the climb up Rapaki.  Half way up the road got a text from Phatboy..."Where are you?".  Told him then carried on.  I knew he would give chase.  Anyhow we continued the climb with Bugs leading the way.  I hung onto his back wheel, wheezing all the way and expecting Phatboy to catch us at any moment.  We slowly dropped Silverfox a tad but at the flat we had a rolling regroup.  Started the last grunt and Bugs slowly left us behind,  Just before the last bend Phatboy caught us.  Finally made the top with me feeling slightly strung out.  Tracks all at avoid so we headed left around the road at a steady clip.  On the climbs i was dropping back so when we reached castle Rock I immediately headed down towards the Bridal Path and continued on.  The others caught up and we pumped around under the Gondola and eventually to the start of John Brittan. We  rugged up a bit here. Good run down here with the track slick but still rideable at pace.  When we got to Upper Major Hornbrook a text from Tinkerbell to check where we were and he and his Beloved rode up  from Mt Pleasant Rd.  We headed down the hill towards St Andrews having a quick regroup when Dozer rung and we waited for him.  he had ridden up the hill a few minutes behing Tinks and his Beloved.  Down we all headed flowing well into the park down the gnarly steps and then down to the steps at Ferry Rd.  Arrived at the planting where most planted while I had a meeting.  Afterwards we all headed off in different directions.