This blog has moved - go to http://www.maxxxie.net/

I went for a ride yesterday with one of my new CQ riding buddies, Tracie.  A "leisurely" 71Km ride that saw us riding at 23.7Kph average speed.  Quite a bit quicker than my usual 22-something Kph  rides.

I had to take a detour from my normal route in order to drop something off at the local gym for MaxBabe.  This meant going up Griffiths Rd in Everton Park.  Therein lives a very persistent magpie, who made contact with the back of my head no less than ten times.  It chased me for easily 400 metres, and let me tell you - between dealing with the traffic, the speed bumps, the traffic calming, a roundabout, and that fragging magpie, all while climbing a hill, I was very glad to get out of its territory!!!  I won't be going down that road again in a hurry.

For those of you who don't know the joys of magpie swoops, let me present a couple of YouTubes:

On the way back from Sandgate, I rode over yet another snake.  This one was small, about 30cm long, and about the width of a pencil.  By the time I saw it, it was way too late to take evasive action, and I ended up running over its middle.  I don't know if it survived or not

The ride was good, my legs didn't feel tired at the end of it, so I'm happy.  I want to try to maintain this level of fitness going into the 100Km Brissie-Gold Coast ride coming up next month.