Today was our last race of the trip and the Tour :( a 20mile crit. Like yesterday, it was a combined 15-16 and 17-18 crit, so i was riding with the other budget girls. Mickey and Brodie were tied for first place in their age group so it was going to be a good day lol. there was going to be blood :p. Plan was for Mickey and Brodie to get away then I was going to bridge over to them so Budget was going to be off the front (Lara wasn't feeling too good after the heatstroke yesterday, so decided that she could help block in the bunch). Turns out I broke away with Brodie and then Mickey bridged across. So the plan was still working. This was at about 7 laps to go. We built up our lead and by 4 laps to go, knew that we were going to stay away. Started pulling mass dog turns and told the girls that I would lead it out with 1 lap (around 2.5km) to go so that they could have an equal sprint and may the 'best man win' to decide which one of them would take home the win and the tour. at about 200m to go, girls came round and Mickey took out the sprint from Brodie. Was a great ride and was stoked to be able to finish with the girls on such a strong note. Rate that as prob one of the best rides from them of the tour.
After that, hung around to watch the boys and had to wait a while for presentation lol. While we were waiting, Colleen (Who was 2nd on GC) came over and showed us how to make Smores!!! OMG.. prob one of god's best ever creations.. was pretty much delicious. omg.. i'm hungry just thinking about them. She also gave us changing towels (kinda hard to explain... its like a towel skirt so u can get changed) which was pretty awesome! She was really sweet :).
At presentation, got awarded 3 gold medals for each of the stages and a trophy and another changing towel for overall GC and some more pasta and oil for the sprint primes which was really cool :). I also picked up 100 bucks in prize money which I donated to the Nicole Reinhart Fund (sort of like the Amy Gillet Foundation here in Aus) and got the rest of the girls to aswell which they were more than happy to do. And the founder (Nicole's dad) was really happy and interesting to talk to. It is great that there are foundations out there which are supporting the career of aspiring junior cyclists! At presentation, also made a speech on behalf of Budget, thanking everyone for their support. Everyone has been great to us.. and we will def miss them!
After the boys presentation, we went home and packed the rest of our bikes and junk. I was surprised that everything actually fitted.. took a bit of organising, but it worked :) was pretty impressed if i do say so myself lol.
That night, the Young Medalists were having a bonfire for us at the Semian's. Was prob one of the best days of the trip. It was awesome. It is Brodie's b'day tomorrow so they decorated the front of the house in b'day decorations for her which was real sweet and Toni also caught her 2 frogs as her present (yesterday she caught one and made Brodie kiss it haha was really funny). Anyway, so arrived and had some food then decided to jump in the pool. It was really nice :) haha just hung out with the girls in the spa. was cool.
I also met another girl whilst we were there, Leah. She's pretty cool :) had a good time. She let me drive her car! I was like 'yeah, i've always wanted to drive on the wrong side of the road..' and she asked if i wanted to drive her car lol.. so i did :) just up and down the street, but was good. So driving on the other side of the road, tick :D.
It then started to piss down with rain and when it rains here, it pours, so we had to postpone the bonfire whilst we waited for it to clear, so we decided to give out our Aussie sovenirs which was pretty cool. everyone seemed to enjoy it. Then Juan's uncle made a speech which was really sweet :) just talking about how much they enjoyed having us here and how we have inspired them..awwwww :'(
Then we had dinner and i attempted to play the nintendo wii. I officially suck at mario kart lol. i chose to be king boo cause it looked cute and my vehicle of choice was a bad ass looking motor bike. I'm all for look, not function lol. So did 2 rounds of that, and came dead last in both so decided to retreat back to the pool and chat to everyone else. Wasn't going to get in but got peered pressured into getting back in lol.. it was our last night there.. so why the hell not? I also decided to try some of the alchool they had at the party.. thought why not...try some American alchool.. was actually pretty good lol..watermelon flavored..so no, the drink in the paper cup wasn't lemonade ;) hahaha... gotchya there!
Then it was time for us to go home.. really didn't want to! Audrey had to basically drag us by the hair... but Kath had to leave at 5am so we had to get back. Said our teary goodbyes to everyone.. god i hate goodbyes... and then jumped in the car and ventured home
def rated today...was prob one of the highest rated days of the trip next to fitchburg. everything/everyone was just lovely.
Not looking forward to tomorrow... our last day in good old Kutzy.. :'(
xo
No comments:
Post a Comment