It's not everyday that a man acts out the metaphor, but last week, on Wednesday CTB did.
He was one of the game souls who started the inaugaral Kiwi Brevet . An feverish trial of inner strength, endurance, sheer bloody mindedness and cycling. It was eleven hundred kilometres of riding around the top half of the South Island, a mix of roads and terrain, just madness of the best sort.
CTB rocked up on his cyclocross bike, and four days later finished the event, in third place. The next day he had to go and have his backside re-skinned with plastic skin.
Well done fella!
I'm looking forward to catching up for that beer and hear the gritty tale in full.
As an aside I did raise the prospect of me doing it next year over dinner last night, surprising it got the tentative thumbs up.
