Follow your nose Nigel

With the Olympic Distance Triathlon World Champs only a few weeks away, I probably should have been doing intervals on the bike and gone for a run today but the weather was screaming 'Go for a long ride.'

Last week I created a 'Bucket List' of training rides and runs I'd like to do this season and saw today as the ideal opportunity to tick one of the rides off.

The ride was into Wellington, loop around climbing all the major hills and back out through the Western Hills (Belmont).
I did it today, 125km/ 5.20hrs/ 1940m of climbing, all safely in the bank.

I didn't have a clear plan on where to go, I just followed my nose and as long as I was climbing, I was going in the right direction.  I had no idea there were so many steep streets in Wellington!!!

Route:
Up and over Mt Vic, around the Prison, up Hungerford Rd through South Gate dropping down to Berhampore, up Britomart St to Brooklyn and carried on up to the wind turbine, up Aro Valley and finished off by climbing up Wrights Hill in Karori.