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Day Two – A bit longer

It’s been a while since I posted a chapter. My life just got a bit busy and a bit high stress for a while, and I’ve been feeling a bit lost and listless. The stress levels are starting to get under control though and I’m making a few changes and reprioritising a bit. That should mean that the next chapters come a bit faster, especially after I read something the other day that gave me a due date for the complete story. With that due date in mind, I’m now going back to 21st March ’21, which was a pretty good day…

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Day One

Day One: Leaving Freo

There we stood, lined up in front of the lighthouse, in total silence as we paid our respects to the late, great, Mike Hall. I was thinking about Mike’s approach to life and what he would have done with the opportunity before us all now, when suddenly a voice broke into my thoughts. Damian was saying “See you in Sydney”. It was time to go. IPWR 2021 had started.

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Before

Some time in January

My performances in my local criterium races of late have been outstanding. Sadly, not outstanding in a good way. But it wasn’t a problem. Every bike racer knows that there are two ways to do ok at bike racing – the first is to finish ahead of everyone else, and the second is to have good excuses. And I’d figured out the perfect excuse for doing badly at crits.

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