Mini bunny ride in Adcock Park

Today was initially going to be a ride with part of the biker bunny crew, but due to unforeseen circumstances (one bunny had a time-clash with a cleaning job, and the other poor bunny was bedridden with the flu), we turned it into a family outing with laps around the velodrome in the glorious sun.

The Ride

19th July 2009
Bunnies present: mini bunnies Ben & Amanda, Bo and Annette

Meeting place: Adcock park (3 bunnies travelled down by car, while the 4th rode down the hill)
Weather: Beautiful sunny day!Ride distance: 17.6km

Average heartrate: 139bpm (max 171)

Calories burnt: 607

Woke up this morning to a few unfortunate ride-cancellations, and hoping that bunny Amanda is feeling a lot better by now, and that cleaning went well for bunny Noey :) Tor and Lou bunny have been off on another massive Toad training session, which we look forward to hear all about...

With such a gorgeous day, we decided to pack the kids' bikes into the car and meet down at Adcock park. The velodrome in the park is a pretty exciting track to coast around... No cars, and heaps of space to try and figure out how to use the slanted ends without careering into the fence or on to the grass in the middle :) Nifty little markers along the track helped us work out that the track is 400metres long following the low end, not sure how much further you end up going if you stay up the very top, but happy to leave the stats at 400m per lap :)

Everyone had a go, and as it was pretty much just us there, we had a great time doing races, stunts, bit of long-jumping thrown in by mini-bunny Ben, and some serious streamer swishing by mini-bunny Amanda. The lap stats ended up somewhere around: Bo - 2 | Ben - HEAPS | Amanda - twentyhundred | Annette - 10, and everyone seemed happy with their performance, the mini-bunnies were especially pleased with the ' wipe the track with mum' lap (mum on foot running, and kids swishing around on 2 wheels :) )

Looking foward to the next ride and hope you're happy and well :)

... on a stat note - I've been watching some of the Tour de France and am seriously baffled by their riding stats! Average speed: 45km/hour! (sometimes they ride up to 55km/hour), average distance in a day - 200-ish km!!! (WOW!), average heartrate: 145-150... (I think.... because these are numbers they call out a lot, and it can hardly refer to number of flat tyres on a ride :) ) Even more impressive is the fact that they can ride in a large group, no hands(!) and manouvre their way in and out of rain-coats, eat food, grab water, talk to people in cars etc, without causing a major crash... Should be in a circus! (I sit there internally yelling "Put your hands on your handlebars, you're going to FALL over!!!!!" :)

Anyway Tour de bunnies :) on ya bikes!

Long Jetty - Toukley

The Ride stats
12th July 2009

Biker bunnies: Amanda, Noelle & (buck) Matt
Location: Jong Jetty to Toukley~ 29kms
Riding time: close to 2 hours
Attire: Bright orange vest(s)
Hazard: Plastic bottle interferes with biking bunny!!!!

This ride has been superbly documented by bunny Amanda, I'm merely posting it here for all of you to enjoy!

What a jolly delicious day it was on Sunday as Noelle, myself and Matt decided to conquer our longest ride yet – Long Jetty to Toukley which is close to 29 kms.


There I am getting dressed looking pretty hot (if I may say so myself – seriously joking) before I realized that I had to wear my construction site sleeveless orange vest – I assure you it is for safety not fashion reasons that I don this wonderful invention.


Anyway, unlike the Biker bunnies from Hell, we drive to our destination and then cycle merrily on our way. Noelle and I were not prepared for the hills I can assure you. When you drive this road it does not feel hilly until you actually take notice and then wow – where did that one come from?????????? After dodging all the littlies with their mum and dads on bikes and poor old Matt nearly fell off as a kid cycled straight in front of him – we got onto the hard leg of the ride. Don’t know the name of the road but boy are the hills horrible (when you are not fit) – if Matt hadn’t have been with us we would have taken about 50 breaks instead of 2. We got a five minute break as Matt had to field a work call and Noelle and I decided to support him resting! Not bad really but I must tell you there was a lot of panting and swearing and what the f**** did we do this for...


Word of warning – on our return cycle I got hit with some passing plastic bottle clipped by a car – I nearly fell off as it hit me in the head and then went under my back wheel. Wobble wobble shit I am scared – this fear turned into energy which I used to pedal as fast as I could to get off this bloody road. It did take us close to 2 hours but Matt reckons we could do it in one – so give it a go!


Highlight of the trip – stopping at Robbos Café de la Soul for a coffee and getting some freshly made doughnuts and coffee on the house – well cool!


We will be attempting to break our records on the Gosford to Woy Woy ride this Sunday for any takers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Happy cycling!

Amanda