Slow trip to the Tweed Dojo

Today I set out a bit after 10:00am. along Round Mountain Road still not having made a decision as to the route I would take to get to the Ryukyu-kai Tweed Dojo as my daughter was training for her Junior Sandan-Ho today. A decision would be made as I peddled towards the freeway, the wind, the traffic and my general feeling of well-being. If all things fell the right way up I would Take the Not so Short way or else the Freeway (flat and boring but quickly over).

OK to cut a long story short I went via Reserve Creek Road over the Range all the way to Mur'bah then along Tweed Valley Way to Tumbulgum, (thankfully the wind stayed mellow, but I was glad I had applied the Sunscreen before I left!) then over the bridge and up the hill to Terranora, during the ascent an old couple in a toyota 4wd pulled up along side as I was still grinding out the ascent and decided to ask some questions, no hello or anything just something started like do you know if such and such lives around ... I cut her off with a panted sorry I can't talk right now! Sorry my foot! my heart rate was at 162 and my legs were not screaming but I sure didn't need to answer some inane question at the time. Any way it made me smile at their total misreading of the situation, any other time they would of been the 4wd that sqeezes past on my side of the road between the double undivided lines and me, just so they don't break the one law that they do know. After reaching the top I was overtaken by two road racers, one of which had the courtesy to say gid'day the other just seemed to enjoy the thought they were travelling faster than someone else, albiet downhill and the bike they were overtaking had a lower top speed, nothing to do with the rider, just the way it is when comparing a Hybrid and a Road bike,  I enjoy my riding even though I watch others dissapear into the distance after they have passed by more energy in less time == what I want out of bicycle riding not how far I can say I have gone in the shortest time, if that's what I was after I would get a motor bike.

Refocus!!!! After reaching the top of Terranora Road and started the descent towards Sextons Hill around the SS's, as the locals call them, I turned off onto Frazier Drive thn at the bottom turning onto Liesure Drive until I reached Greenway drive and onto the the dojo. A total trip distance of just over 43km.



So this weeks cumulative km: 245km