Day 12

After a good nights sleep I was on the footpath with my bags at 6:30am waiting for the van to pick me up to head to Sumner. It was a nice morning for the planed run up Capt Thomas track, out to Godley Head and return along the Boulder bay coastal track. This is one of the best runs in Christchurch and with the sun out it was spectacular. 18km done it was straight to coffee culture for my coffee fix.

We departed at 10:45 for Geraldine with the knowledge of a southerly front heading towards us. It hit us a couple of hours into the ride and made it tough riding conditions. Unfortunately in the blustery conditions the bunch was surging a little. One of these surges caused some breaking and I was not quick enough to avoid running up the back of Nicks bike. Nearly managed to hold it up but failed and ended up on the deck. The hard chip on the road edge took a few gauges out of my knee but otherwise I was ok. The rest of the ride was cold and wet up to the lunch stop. After lunch Clas decided to warm things up and got a train going. We covered the last 50k in good time and got to Geraldine sometime around 4pm.

Super Dave organised a trip to the doc for me to get checked out. The amusing part of this was Scott the camera man came to film the whole process (not a lot of other exciting events happened today) . Pleased to say it wasn't bad, just a clean up and a bandage. I am not supposed to swim for a day, but we have pool games tomorrow. The classic Epic camp 400IM and I do not want to miss out now I have come so far.

I am feeling good after today. Defiantly got over the fatigue I had in Kaikoura. Looking forward to tomorrow.