Mountain (bike) Madness

I made use of the last day of my school holidays (still a weekend to go fortunately!) to have a good thrash around the mountains around Nelson with a friend.

I'm sure I've repeatedly stated this fact, but we are so lucky to have sea, rivers, flat land, sand dunes, rivers, lakes, islands and mountains all within a few hundred metres of our house! My mate and I spent 2 and-a-half hours ragging it aound the hills pictured below:
And we could have gone on for hours more if it were not for our labouring legs! The sun was shining, the air cool and the options of various tracks and paths endless:

I got home and did the aiport loop run, returning home at lunch time absolutely knackered... oh well, only 40 hours until the first duathlon race of the season!