21st Jan 2018, 408 Puketoi Road

Mum, Mark, & I went to the practice day. We thought it was going to be a trial but, oh well, we still had a good time. Unfortunately Mark’s bike wasn’t going properly.

I was riding Hazel’s Techno (we’ve still got to pick up my bike from John’s) but I swapped bikes with Phil Stevenson quite early in the day.

Mum started the day off a little worried that she wouldn’t be able to keep up and that she’d slow them down but it all worked out and, apart from her face-planting at the end of the day, she had fun.

It was farmland with a lot of small rocks and quite a cool gully. The gully had a small stream with rocks scattered about.

The hill climbs were good. There was quite a daunting looking one with a step near the top, and another ugly looking steep papa ramp.

I was trying to do floating turns and was playing around on some banks. There were just seven of us riding but it was a great day.