Monthly Archives: April 2014

Easter Ends

After a very welcome rest day, we steeled ourselves for the Dungaree Challenge.  This involved head to head loop racing in some supposedly fast open spur-gully terrain.  Turned out to be not that fast as there was a lot of fallen sticks and branches on the ground, but it was very much like Bendigo. Pete […]

Easter Part 3

Day 4 – Easter Day 3 It was another foggy start to what promised to be another sunny autumn day. The final event was on a new map, Cherry Farm. It promised more rock and more steep stuff. It was a long walk from parking down to the arena, which was set in a very […]

Easter Part 2

Day 2 – Easter Day 1 (yes I could write a book about the stupidity of the structure of the Easter 3 day carnival that runs for 4 days…) Morning dawned all too soon, and Ilze was very grumpy. The resident rooster had started crowing at about midnight, and continued at regular intervals all night. […]

Easter Part 1

Day 1 – Prologue Another year, another Easter come and gone. This was my last year in W45AS, meaning that next year I turn 55, and get to move into another age group. What with being one of the oldest in my age category, and my recent disasters, I had absolutely no expectations or ambitions […]