The small joys today thread (a bit of Yang for FoA Yin of late)

long walks on the beach

Saw some dolphins getting rad in the waves at Middleton Beach.


#bikeradarisfred

riding horses…meeting new friends

A bit like watching the Batchelor (I’m forced)

Same, but how shit is Amber AM I RIGHT?!

Riding MTB with Aeons this afternoon - good technical DH stuff, then smashing a favourite trail and hearing Aeons breathing down my neck. Then logging some good PR’s on a well ridden Stromlo trail. I love taking my son for a ride - he is learning so fast.

rode king lake and whittlesea today and took in some farm roads along the way too. i usually find it hard to motivate myself to keep going when i’m on my own but i’m glad i did it just to take in some of the views.

it was also the most climbing i’ve done in a single ride (1990m)

i did Mt P - Kinglake - Mt P solo at dawn on Anzac day last year. was one of the best days i’ve ever had on the bike. i’m like you though, i usually get all in my own head, having mates around helps to distract you when you hit the hard spots etc.

The Bombers have a player named Orazio Fantasia.

First for the year and really agressive / brave magpie swooping me provided some small joys for everyone at the mt gravatt-capalaba / broadwater traffic lights. Ended up being pretty comical because the brave sucker was happy to follow within a meter while I was turned looking at him.

realising the pre-admission nurse had her times wrong & I have to fast from 8am tmrw morning, rather than the 6:30am she told me.

Finding www.duolingo.com

I am gonna get so good at spanish, hombres.

I’ve had some pretty good results doing German on the ā€˜Memrise’ app.

Hey thanks for that. Gotta go to Spain in a few weeks, will give that duolingo a crack.

Coming through a set of downhill bermed switchbacks at the QLD XCO State champs, spotting the photographer set up on the next corner, calling out ā€œare you readyā€, hearing ā€œyepā€ and pulling my best Michael Jordan tongue out impression as the flash goes off and hearing the photographer piss himself laughing.

Edit, now with pic.

You better track that pic down!

Got it, just blocked from accessing my website from work - working around it via my phone right now. Give me a minute.

Huzzah!

Pic back in original post a couple up.

Awesome weekend away touring (or maybe flash packing?) with 7 mates.

Lotsa laughs, whixkey, dirt roads and quite a few kms cos bus replacements.