Friday Night Alleycat

Last Friday night was meant to be the "Missing Lanes" alleycat (alleycats are bike messenger races held through cities all around the world). This particular race was open to non-messengers so I decided to join the fun. Unfortunately the rain on Friday meant the original race was postponed and the organiser set out a different route instead. Fortunately I knew the 8 locations for the checkpoints on the race, unfortunately I didn't know about the locations of several bridges and cut-throughs! The race took most of the guys around 50 mins and was measured to be about 21kms, I took about 1hr 20mins and tracked over 30kms...

Next time it might pay for me to tape a map to the handlebars!

The fixie went great though, and I got to belt out a great ride. I thought the get-up that Kath made for me looked pretty good as well. The other guys had a laugh. Kath manned a checkpoint at West End and was worried when I didn't show for a while. I'd left that spot until last, and given my geographical shortcomings was somewhat late!


The re-run is being planned for a couple of weeks time, so hopefully in those weeks I can improve my Brisbane geography!