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seat when it hit the ground are you okay i took the impact onto my hip it hurt and i have a fist sized bruise there now i m noticing other bruises on my legs where the frame landed but they re just bruises i m perfectly okay really i had ridden for two hours and had arrived at mordialloc it was when i was hopping back on my bike for the return trip that i fell i d only made two or three pedals on a low gear and was going quite slow luckily i landed on a flat surface and not in the midst of oncoming traffic although a few seconds later the bus parked at the stop i was passing would have been right behind me how did you get home true you can t ride a bike without a seat knicks are heavily padded but not padded enough for that four gentlemen came to my aid when i was lying on the ground in shock the bus driver and three bystanders from the cafe in the area once they d collected all of the seat bits off the road they established the cause the broken bolt and we realised that more than an alan key was needed to solve this one i was directed to a nearby bike shop the bike shop was less than 50 metres from where we were i hobbled off in the direction i was told to go reassuring the kind people i was okay and making some sort of joke about the size of my butt given that i d just snapped my seat bolt in half in the bike shop i met karlos firstly he examined the seat and responded quickly to my repeated joke to compliment my shape and say that my butt size wasn t the cause of the broken bolt which was sweet and entirely the right thing to say to a woman whether it were true or not he told me it was the fourth broken seat bolt he d had to deal with that day and showed me the marks on the seat that indicated it had been fixed too far back this put pressure on the bolt no wonder it snapped secondly he ascertained that it was an aluminium bolt and not very strong while he was explaining all this to me in a gentle and caring tone i started to feel like we all do when someone is sympathetic a little sore and sorry for myself i couldn t help it a few little tears escaped and ran down my cheeks what s wrong he asked i just fell off my bike i replied he gave me a hug i dug out a tissue and pulled myself together i carry a snap lock bag with cash credit card bandaids a tissue and my garage blip in it he was impressed with my organisation where did you learn to do that oh i ve been riding road bikes since i was 18 i told him he started work on my bike did you feel like you were reaching too far for the handle bars he asked i told him that i had i d only had the bike for one year i bought a carbon fibre bike with ultegra gears as a package from melbourne cycles it was a lovely bike but i had always harboured doubts about the way they d set it up for me because i felt as though i had to stretch on long rides i experienced back pain as never before and i couldn t comfortably reach the drop position a position i d been very comfortable in on my previous bike set up by ivanhoe cycles i d even asked my bike guy at uni to check the set up he improved the situation but only slightly karlos history was in bike manufacturing he d been head hunted for the job at mordialloc bicycle centre where i found him and he d only been there a few weeks his sport was downhill mountain bike racing he was 35 but had the demeanour of a man much younger he was an adrenalin junkie compared to the spills he d had in his downhill career my thud onto the bitumen was pretty lame apparently he is fairly famous in that circle known as the jackal despite the thrill seeking he had a wholesome philosophy about cycling and life maybe that s because he was essentially a country lad apparently my handlebar stem had been put on upside down by putting it the right way up karlos brought my handle bars closer to my reach coupling this with the adjustment of the seat position i felt as though i was on a different bike one that had been sculpted around my body shape i was ecstatic but that s not all he did you do realise the seat you have on is for males don t you no it was sold to me as a female seat have a look at this this is a female seat it has this little gap here do you think that would make a difference to your comfort karlos didn t realise that he was talking to someone who for a year had been putting up with too much pressure on a very sensitive part of her body thinking it was just down to getting the angle right who at the end of every ride regardless of the seat angle felt as though she d lost a layer of skin from that area and who had gritted through 210 km in around the bay last year minus several layers of sensitive skin due to the unnatural pressure and deep bruising around each sit bone what i was astonished cross and relieved at the same time do you think you could sell me a female seat right now you can have this one for 20 bucks he grinned he adjusted my handlebars and put a stainless steel bolt in to hold my new seat i told him to sell my old seat if he could it was only a year old i rode the 50k home and arrived just before it started to rain with a few warning drops falling from the sky even though my bruises gave me a bit of pain i was so much more comfortable on my bike and all this just a week and two days before this years around the bay posted by ejenne filed in cycling living in melbourne outdoor sporting interests weird experiences women leave a comment on my run i saw four black cockatoos six kangaroo and an eastern rosella september 14 2011 on my run this afternoon i saw four black cockatoos six kangaroo and an eastern rosella yep you guessed it i m back in australia and despite a little bit of jet lag i have just managed to do my usual 10k run i think it was the lyon city bikes and swimming laps in the pool at the university of exeter that kept me fit whilst away for two weeks despite conferencing during the day eating out at night and drinking a little bit more and staying up later than i normally would the highlights of the trip apart from the conferences themselves and the wonderful people with whom i had professional and happy catch up discussions the highlights of the trip were 1 on safari in search of dartmoor ponies 2 exploring lyon on city bikes and on foot following is a photographic chronology of my dartmoor safari firstly it took a little while to find our way onto the moors but we knew we were there when the trees became windswept there were no stone fences and we could see tors on the horizon it was amongst the tors that i first spotted evidence of the ponies so i took a photo of the evidence just in case we didn t find any actual ponies we sat on the tors for a little while and became very windswept ourselves through binoculars we spotted ponies on a far away ridge and some more by a far away road under a tree it was exciting we jumped in the car and headed for the far away road after many twists and turns we passed the very same ponies that we had seen magnified though our binoculars still standing under the tree i lept out of the car and captured the beasts on film the photographs i will now share with you wild ponies although they didn t look particularly wild they sort of looked tubby and placid in australia we have wild horses called brumbies they are legendary and you get the image of them running in packs tossing their manes in the wind bucking and such and being quite fierce if you ever come across them you d expect a bit of hoof stamping and nostril flaring at the minimum i suppose that s what i was expecting of the dartmoor ponies but on second thoughts i should have realised that they weren t quite the same as the wild horses in the australian high plains their title ponies should have given me the heads up oh well we had a fun day and topped it off with cream tea in dartmouth in the sun it was much warmer in dartmouth than up on the moors stay tuned for more adventure travel stories next up getting lost in lyon in search of brasserie georges posted by ejenne filed in travel 4 comments sunset from the transit lounge hk august 28 2011 if you do pump then have a massage at the oriental healing centre at hong kong airport 35 hours later it will hurt some people would say that if you do pump thirty five hours later you will hurt other people might suggest that pain would be experienced at the elbows of the masseurs at hk airport regardless of what you did thirty five hours prior the combination is therefore a no brainer but i can vouch that it is an acute pain that takes training to endure my training took place at a very early age and i was coached by my father a la pavlov when i was a kid my father encouraged us all to have our fillings done without pain relief he d make light of the drill and reward us by telling us how brave we were i endured the pain of the massage by breathing through it it took quite a bit of breathing there were times i thought i wouldn t make it but i m glad i did because the massage cured my headache and filled in one of the eight hours i have here at hk airport i filled another hour by going to starbucks there i met a random traveller from india who s in the logistics business dealing with trade in and out of russia and china i think now i might go and find a restaurant for some dinner and some chinese tea posted by ejenne filed in interesting facts travel women 1 comment conquering the travel heeby geebies august 26 2011 hello blogging world thanks for being here i must admit i have a bit of travel anxiety building up i used to think that the anxiety was caused by other people for example my husband would insist on the week leading up to my departure that i do extraneous jobs like sort out the children s wardrobes and be on duty for kids sport and night club pickups all week i had thought he was intentionally sabotaging my peace of mind i d get on the plane wound up after a week of total chaos and tension in the house this time he did ask me to sort out the wardrobes but i realised all i had to do was quietly explain that i was busy getting my conference presentations ready and that he please refrain from asking me to do non urgent jobs for a week at least he backed off i ve had space and time to focus on my work but with a day and a half to fly out the anxiousness is here with no one to blame i ve recognised the issue when i have trouble concentrating i ve given myself license to goof off for a little while it s the kind of anxiety that children have leading up to their birthday parties i feel like i ve already left in my head but i m still here it s an unreality i m blogging to maintain a tenuous link between here and there i m here my head is there i m heading to exeter and then lyon its low twenties celcius in exeter and thirty five in lyon i ve set myself the challenge of bringing carry on luggage only the reasoning was to avoid the ten pound surcharge with flybe but what s ten pound my excuse for taking on the challenge its something i ve been able to focus on i m the kind of consumer who buys random items without considering how well they fit with already acquired stuff in our first home i made the curtains and chose a floral fabric for its solitary appeal the fabric didn t match any of the hand me down furniture we had acquired from grandparents and sundry when we sold the place we moved out and a professional decorator did it up for sale my girlfriend who d been in the house almost everyday for ten years said oh new curtains they look great they d been there for the ten years she just handn t noticed them because they clashed it has therefore been quite a challenge to match tops with pants and shorts in an economical fashion i m hoping the silk dress i bought on sale at sportcraft at the dfo centre will do for both climates oh i don t have any shoes to match it dang posted by ejenne filed in travel women 2 comments the snow is calling june 12 2011 its mid june first semester at uni is over the mornings are getting foggy and i m thinking about the snow we don t get snow in our cities but for the first time in many years the opening of the ski season has begun with skiable mountains before i had my children going up to the snow fields on queens birthday weekend was a given these years were followed by years of pressing parental duties with babies which were followed by years of ignoring the snow while the drought took hold and snow in time for the opening became a thing of the past those years of ignoring the snow were spent in the grampians with friends who we would have skied with in the old days instead we tramped the grampians by day one group on a child friendly walk and another doing a more challenging walk for adults only the adult walkers would often return well after dark feeling as though they had survived an expedition evenso the day walks ended in comfort which was very unlike the trips we all used to do hauling tents to remote places for a taste of wilderness and snow camping our accommodation in the grampians was a large farmhouse that felt roomy even with four families staying together and it was a working sheep farm there we regrouped in the evenings over the massive dining table and shared tales from the day while the kids ran amok in the corridoors or played in one of the large unused rooms it became a tradition that the kids would plan a show and put it on for the adults in the sitting room on the last day of the weekend the weekends at the farmhouse in the grampians ended for us when our children became teenagers the drought continued and the long weekend passed by unremarkably even this year we planned a weekend of rest rosie is studying for exams emma has returned from a 3 week choir tour of the us kat has been nightclubbing i ve been out with friends and doing the night club run at the end of the evening but the snow fell early and i can feel the mountains calling emma took up cross country skiing with a passion last year she competed in the schools xc ski championships i spent a weekend up on buller with her and found my ski legs again this year i ve been caught by surprise but next queens birthday weekend you know where you ll find me posted by ejenne filed in in appreciation of my friends my life with four daughters outdoor sporting interests 1 comment a little bit of new orleans april 24 2011 i ve returned to melbourne from new orleans with a little bit of new orleans the little bit of new orleans that i have taken with me is intangible but represented by one magnetic ear cd i purchased the cd after spending my lunch hour in front of one of the outdoor stages set up for the french quarter festival the mississippi river was the backdrop i sat in the sun and ate falafel from one of the many outlets set up under tents by local restaurants magnetic ear were playing i hadn t heard of them before they are a band of two saxophones two trombones a tuba and drums their sound was intoxicating their talent was astounding and they could move i ve never seen trombone player...
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