Well, to improve fitness and enjoy a challenge it was an idea to do a bit of biking. The scenario approached was: - Bike the race around Lake Taupo. That's all, just do it!!!! On dad's B'day was the day of the race so, as a bunch of companions; Madeleine, Dad, Kerin, gym trainer Kent, myself and a total of around 10'000 others to race with! I was for the first time doing this event on a road-bike and peddling up the first hill, the steepest one, was amazingly easy and once I was at the top I checked behind me, but and the others were only half way up. I basically left them behind and enjoyed my first road-bike experience. On hill ascents I constantly passed people going about twice the speed, went normally on
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