Whistler PT - 1

First day of arrival Lloyd and I did about 22kms with 4 laps of intermediate jump lines. As we were functioning off no sleep we didn’t think it smart to go much more advanced. It was my first time riding at whistler though and it’s very fun. Moving forward I won’t include a day by day blow by of what I’ve been doing more so a summary of the last 4 days of riding. Day 2 we did a large day about 82kms the next days was only around 44kms each day. I’m writing this as I’m about to go riding again on day 5 with some very bruised and blistered hands. My hands are very used to pulling motions from rowing and Thredbo a bit however with the large jumps here there’s a lot more of a push impact on your hands during the landings so the hands are copping it in new ways. The jump lines here are extremely fun very large. My goal here is to clear every single jump on the famous A-Line. The advanced jump trail here - easily the most famous jump trail in the world. It has 33 jumps and I’ve now cleared 12 and I’m getting close to a lot more of them. The tech trails here are quite insane. Steep, dusty and loose, with prolonged sections of just straight downhill which you don’t really find in Australia honestly.

Conditions here have been very very dusty. Lloyd and I have been enjoying the dry nose associated with plane flights, coupled with lots of dust from the riding we have felt very dusty, even in the shower I can never feel like I’m not dusty, I’m used to dust but it feels like it’s all been micronised and is just constantly hanging around meaning constant blood in the nose. It’s been very hot here too 32deg each day. I’ve ended up buying Lloyd and I Hawaiian mountain bike short sleeve shirts to ride in, so now we’re stylish and a bit cooler in this heat.

Yesterday we took a half day break and rode out to green lake to give our very tired and sore bodies a rest. Green lakes the largest lake in whistler and it’s all glacier fed and as the name suggests it’s green. Funnily enough it’s also the airport. With a few of the locals who live on the lake instead of having boats having water planes.

Hard getting used to my clip in shoes too, ive fallen of in slow mo 3 times now because i havent been able to unclip fast enough. Saved myself at the top of a cliff yesterday god that was scary. See the last video of me stacking it into some rope after a jump for a laughRead more