Day 11 Dave Langley Kaikora to Christchurch

It was freezing last night, coming from a very hot and balmy Brisbane anything under 25 to me is considered cold. My feeling cold was justified early this morning when we woke up to snow covered mountains and a cool southerly still blowing hard, which had me worried about the exposed 190k to Christchurch. We ran down to the pool, and it was an open air pool! But much to our surprise it was a nice 23C and in wetsuits the 3k cruised by. Some great photos were taken of us in the pool with the snow in the background. Love NZ summers.

As I nursed myself back to the motel I was trying very hard to firstly stay awake and secondly trying to mentally prepare myself for what could have been a terrible ride. But as it turned out the winds were mild and the pace was on.... after a very ordinary day yesterday I was back my legs felt great and I managed to stay with the pack for the entire day we averaged 32 high approx 5hr 22min ride time for 185km.

I took the opportunity not to do an extra run this afternoon as we have a 20km trail run in the morning before the trip to Geraldine.

I must also say that I am feeling ok mentally and physically although the short term memory is going and some other strange habits are forming such as making sure I have the same gloves on everyday which means they haven't been washed yet, they can stand up themselves! I am dealing with some minor tendonitis in my right foot and my troublesome neck still gives me grief every day. At this stage the drugs are working but I have not had to take any anti inflamatory durgs since day 2. Which my wife will be pleased with.