Pushing towards Two Hours and Gear Failure!!

Last weekend was busy at home with work continuing on the raised garden between the deck and the new ramp.  This work is being done by Henry Hogg with Harry and myself labouring on the less technical stuff.  This building work soaked up the whole of Saturday. The next day we were down to Timaru with a trailer to pick up some of Denise's household items.  With great efficiency this was completed by early afternoon giving us a chance for a training push.


The last push I completed on Thursday was pretty tough, my pain levels were high and I ended up thinking "can I really do this thing??" My feelings on this latest push were totally different. I was aiming to get close to two hours in the chair.  It was a perfect day; clear, light breeze and mild temperatures. The push went really well, I did have to make some steering adjustments along the way but this did not take long and I ended up pushing for almost 27km and about 110 minutes in the saddle.  The one rather large hiccup happened just as I cruised into my driveway and I went to apply the brake to stop the handle bars broke off!! Photo of the damage is below.  Very lucky this happened when I got home rather than 13km up road! 

Broken Handle Bar

Also attached to this post is a video of part of my latest training push, enjoy the music!!