Well well the sun is not shining here in sunny old invercargill, rather it is 5 degrees and not hailing nor snowing but icing.... well, hailing ICE.. They said the weather was going to be bad but i did not expect anything like this. i think if we can all make it through this then we can survive anything that the great highway of life intends to throw at us. Today's first stage was a 4.5km individual time trail around queens park in central invercargill. the circuit was a rectangle and it was quite windy with only a smal section of tailwind, the first 200m and the last 300m. Nicolas walker was first off and as he left the house to go to the start it started hailing, i mean icing... how funny that was until i had to leave the house for the start and it also started icing, karma hey!! Nic did quite well with a time just under 6min and i did a time of about 6min. The other three have not gone off as i write this so we hope that they do well. the wininng time thus far is 5.30min.... Today's afternoon stage starts at 1.oopm and is a 85km road stage that finishes up the notorious bluff hill, a 2.5km slog at an average of about 15 per cent. the difficulkt thing here is the large amount of crosswinds before the climb starts. It will be a big accomplishment to be in the front group at the bottom of the hill.
i will keep all posted on the great weather and the results.
Nathan Jones
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