It’s a new year for the 6am-ers and most of us are drawing to the end of our holidays with families. Mid to late January is always a good time to settle back into the real traditional 6am-er Sunday rides.
Last Sunday (15 Jan) about ten of the guys headed out for an initial timed 1:20 followed by a couple of other climbs in the ‘nongs. Perrins Creek, The Patch and The Crescent all saw some 6am-er action.
This week (22 Jan), a beautiful summer Sunday morning was introduced to us with a magnificent sunrise as we headed toward the ‘nongs.
With a number of 6am-ers still over in Adelaide for the Tour Down Under, a small group of seven of us headed out to Gembrook to do a quick lap around the famous ’2Laps’ race course, enjoy a coffee and Linza Torte in Emerald and then saunter back via The Wall.
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Here’s Gilmore’s description of yet another brilliant 6am-ers Sunday ride…
Waking to find that the strong winds of saturday night had abated, as 4 6amers headed out from the meeting point to find 3 more perched on col du deakin, the beginnings of a lampre pink sunrise gave us all a taste of the ripping morning to come.
Early talk amongst the bunch led us to find that we had El Manetes and Lumpy feeling saturdays blackie-track racing in legs while autobus casually commented that he led a bunch down for 2 laps of 2 bays only to lead the bunch all the way back and then complete “lost & found intervals” with his son in the botanic gardens for the afternoon!
The stop for coffee (or something slightly cooler for some) in Emerald saw us bid farewell to El Manetes who, by all reports TTed his way back Burwood in a fashion that would have left Big Horn gasping. Talk of a visit to the Wall on the way home left Autobus less than thrilled but once onto the climb and beyond 200+ k’s for the weekend, Auto showed true grit to put together a very solid climb.
