Trivia Night

Tuesday night we joined some friends from work and headed to the Heritage hotel (bar) to play trivia.  For those of you who have never been to a trivia night, people form teams and write the answers to verbal questions, usually in a few rounds.  The winner usually gets a bar tab for a prize.  It is a good excuse for a pint or two and to hang out with your friends.  Our team consisted of a few Aussies from the local Uni, 2 pommies (Brits) I work with and an Australian who has been living in Canada, we were quite a multinational team.  Liverpool kids was our chosen name after Paul's hometown.  We started off hot in the first round, due almost entirely to Laura who has a knack for identifying TV shows based on a few bars of the theme song.  We all contributed in the rest of the rounds and we came from behind going into the last round to win at the end.  We won a $100 bar tab, but as we had already had plenty of the amber nectar for one night we decided to keep it for next week.  

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Tuesday was my last official day on the track. I started the day off with a bang and went for the AM road ride at 5.  It was still dark when we started riding and really didn't lighten up enough to turn off the lights for another 15 minutes.  The ride is called the angle and is a big triangle.  After we took the last turn we started a pace line and the speed really turned up.  I am happy to say I was one of only 3 other guys who were consistantly able to put down the hammer at the front, the other 10 guys rotated in from time to time.  I think that the track training gave me some speed in the legs as well as some stamina.  The first time I did this ride after 1 month off the bike, I was dropped half way home on the last leg.

So, not having had enough pain for one day, I went to the track in the afternoon.  It turned out to be the last practice of the year.  It had some fun riding up and down the banks and savoring being out on the track for the last time.  By the end of the session my lags were completely dead.  But that was expected.  At least I will not have to keep swapping my pedals from bike to bike anymore.

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Well today I finally made myself get up at 5AM on a weekend and go for a bike ride.  I am sore and tired now, but happy I finally did it.  We rode out from Rocky prior to the sun rise and were out at the beaches in the early hours of the morning.  My odometer said 108.5 Km when I returned home.  Not bad seeing as I  have not had a ride over 60Km since arriving in Australia.  We stopped at a bakery in Yeppoon a little over the half way point for a little rest and refuel.  I choose an apple pie and a bottle of chocolate milk.  My quads were burning on the return to town, but I couldn't slow up to warm down. I was climbing the last hill 500 meters from my house and was riding next Chaddy (Rock Racing's Glen Chadwick), his cool down was a bit quicker than mine. 

Skipping back to Saturday night, I had a track race.  We had a nice warm up and just as we were beginning our race it started sprinkling.  By five laps into the race the track was too slick and they called the event.  Turnout has been dwindling so it may have been the last race of the year.  Road season is due to start in April.