Birthday bash at the Bealey Spur
Yesterday was my 36th birthday. I can’t help but think of random events and “moments” in time as the calender hits July 10th each year. So here are just a few….I was a smoker for 15yrs and it has been 6 years since I quit, It is close to ten years since I moved from [...]
I love rubber…
So it was a fine fine day today when I eventually managed to roll out of bed at 11am :) What a stark contrast to yesterday when it was rainy and cold. I was pretty chuffed to have saved myself for today’s outing and after a quick call out to the gang- I remembered Spence [...]
Long time no blog…
Apologies for the lack of ramblings of late- Summer has eventually arrived over this side of the world and I’m keener to be out doing stuff rather than sat in front of this screen.Truth be known, I’ve not done anything that exciting since breaking my ribs anyway- other than attempting to keep my base fitness [...]
My favourite posts of 2009
Another year nearly over, and what an epic it has been at www.paulpetch.com! Some obvious highlights have been merging of personal blogs into one (that went problem free within 24hrs!), lots of riding, shed loads of running (61.7 KM ultra anyone!) and a rapid increase in internet traffic. The more subtle stuff of 2009 has [...]
A sunny afternoon of Mountain Biking in the Port Hills
Amy and I headed into the city for a quick bite to eat and a coffee before I met up with Ben at Worsley’s Road to begin the long climb up the road and then the steep and now technical muddy and slippery Worsley’s Track. The track has huge ruts running all the way up [...]
Winter ride in the Port Hills
Due to wintery weather, the Marin Wolf being at BikeHQ for a good service, repair (more of which I’ll talk about later) and of course my slackness, it has been at least a six weeks (yeah I know) since my real last MTB ride. I’ve been running, commuting and doing other sports- but it is [...]
Hanmer 12 hour by Blue Dog Events
Getting ready Taking Friday off and packing for the weekends sillyness at the Hanmer 12hr race was a great idea and a relatively stress free experience in contrast to the Cyclic Saga only a few weeks prior. Infact by the time Craig got here for 7ish I was totally ready to rock and roll… and [...]
Mountain biking at Hamner Springs
The past month has been quite messed up with moving home then the flu for a number of weeks that left me with zero energy and some time off work. Thankfully the daily commute and Xbox has kept me sane (just!) and this week has seen me clocking up some quality KM’s and time on [...]
Mountain biking at Scotts Saddle – Mount Hut
Getting Ready Spencer has been wanting to cross this trail off his list for sometime now and with such great weather of late we decided to give it a go. Scotts Saddle is in fact classed as a walking track, but after some research we discovered that it is shared for both activities and a [...]
Craig is back!
Ben and I met up with Craig yesterday for his first ride since being back (he flew in last weekend) after 6 weeks traveling around South America. At 8am it was already in the mid 20′s with a forecast of 30+ so I struggled to keep my breakfast down on the climb upwards….which is becoming [...]
Crater Rim ride at Port Hills
Just when I thought I’d ridden all the trails on Port Hills, Ben sends out an email to see if anyone wanted to join him to ride the Crater Rim trail on Sunday. Spence was kind enough to pick me up and his girlfriend dropped us off at the Kennedy Bush carpark in Haswell for [...]
