Lake Tekapo mountain bike 90kms

Report from  Michelle Kiesan

Myself and Lachlan (noel) traveled down to compete in the around Lake Tekapo mountain race on which was to be held on Sunday of Queens birthday weekend. With recent snowfall the several river crossings at the top were going to be very cold!

The day dawned white with frost and a flat tyre. My problems from last week had already returned. I had already taken the trye off and checked the rim but obviously there was still something small in there. I had no option but to put another tube in and hope for the best!

That didn’t last long. I was going not too bad in the race until about 30kn into the race on a rocky section it went flat again. As I had no spare I borrowed one and got going again. At this point I hurt myself for a while until to my despair it was slowly leaking…… again! I decided to pump it up again and see what happened. I did it about 3 times and got to the finish! The scenery was amazing and I got to see quite a lot as I decided to ease the last hour or so.

I ended up finishing with noel which was fun and we got on the road and headed home back to Christchurch smartly. It was a good event and about 1200 people completed it! Still having major problems with my hip so might be having a MRI scan shortly. If all goes well my next big race will be the peak to peak in Queenstown on July 9th.