Don't push me........

Rui tried to push Kelly up the one of the hills today, this was mistake on his part, I learnt not to try and push Kelly the first year of Starfish and the response was the same as the response she gave Rui, unfortunately this is a family blog and I cannot repeat what was said!!!!

The good news is Mike didn't get lost today and rode the correct route the whole way.......everyone finished the whole ride and of course the racing snakes led by Kobus decided to cross a flooded river, just for fun.

The guys are here telling me that I need to spice up the story and say that they waded across a flooded bridge, bikes above their heads, the route was treacherous and was definitely life threatening.

The truth is the river came up just below their knees...........

We could not wait to get away from Ceres this morning, the Ceres Inn was not the most hospitable place and the owners need a lesson in customer service, if they don't change their way they will end up with no customers.......

The rain was still coming down when we left Ceres going out the same way we came in last night which started with a bit of a climb and then an awesome decent down Mitchells pass and left towards Worcester.

The ride was quick to start with until the main guys peeled off to cross the river, Deon, Liz and I returned to the main road and hooked up with Kelly, Rui and William and carried on to Rawsonville where we bumped into Jacqui, Keith, Sips, Cairen and then headed towards Worcester.

Deon and I spotted a Wimpy on the side of the main road of Worcester I was in the shop helmet off and ready to order when I felt alone and released Deon had gone, I was left alone in Worscester with no idea where the other guys were, luckily I bumped into Ciaren and then Luke and finally Steve who took us back to the group who were quite happily having lunch and a coffee.

Leaving the coffee shop, Andrew his girlfriend Liz my training partner Deon and I headed towards Villiersdorp, the cross winds were hectic blowing us all over the hard shoulder, Deon was strong and managed to get us through the next 20km before we all decided to kick back a little until we got to the bottom of the last climb where Deon shot off the front, not wanting to get beaten up the hill I battled to catch the mountain goat until about 20m from the top of the climb, we decided at this point to cruise into Villiersdorp.

Siphewe had a great ride today and got here ahead of the the team. We are having dinner (a braai for Heritage day) on a farm tonight before we head into the big climbs of tomorrow before we finish in Paarl.