<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080</id><updated>2011-11-15T22:51:35.212+13:00</updated><title type='text'>In The Rut</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>71</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-7818465816676734850</id><published>2011-02-12T20:19:00.002+13:00</published><updated>2011-02-12T20:23:49.633+13:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;iframe width='465' height='548' frameborder='0' src='http://connect.garmin.com:80/activity/embed/67764784'&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-7818465816676734850?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/7818465816676734850/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=7818465816676734850' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/7818465816676734850'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/7818465816676734850'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2011/02/test-ride-from-petone-to-alicetown-by.html' title=''/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-4572541666643384740</id><published>2010-08-16T07:34:00.001+12:00</published><updated>2010-08-16T07:34:09.896+12:00</updated><title type='text'>Feeding eels</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="260" height="195" data="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=71377" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"&gt; &lt;param name="flashvars" value="intl_lang=en-us&amp;photo_secret=22d5916ab3&amp;photo_id=4892762063&amp;flickr_show_info_box=true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt; &lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=71377"&gt;&lt;/param&gt; &lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#000000"&gt;&lt;/param&gt; &lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=71377" bgcolor="#000000" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="intl_lang=en-us&amp;photo_secret=22d5916ab3&amp;photo_id=4892762063&amp;flickr_show_info_box=true" height="195" width="260"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/4892762063/"&gt;Feeding eels&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-4572541666643384740?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/4572541666643384740/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=4572541666643384740' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/4572541666643384740'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/4572541666643384740'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2010/08/feeding-eels.html' title='Feeding eels'/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-3836583088255299</id><published>2010-08-16T07:27:00.001+12:00</published><updated>2010-08-16T07:27:22.562+12:00</updated><title type='text'>Hungry Eels</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/4892899697/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4136/4892899697_cd21caaef1_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/4892899697/"&gt;Hungry Eels&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Hana feeding eels in Masterton&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-3836583088255299?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/3836583088255299/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=3836583088255299' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/3836583088255299'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/3836583088255299'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2010/08/hungry-eels.html' title='Hungry Eels'/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4136/4892899697_cd21caaef1_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-7605254143618959484</id><published>2009-05-06T13:56:00.001+12:00</published><updated>2009-05-06T13:56:15.392+12:00</updated><title type='text'>Crazyman 09 ComCom crazies</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/3499738477/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3619/3499738477_0151f89e63_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/3499738477/"&gt;Crazyman 09 ComCom crazies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;2 duathalon teams for this year's Crazyman.  All ComCom employees....2 x runners (right) and 2 bikers (left). A cool/fun day in the Lower Hutt hills&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-7605254143618959484?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/7605254143618959484/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=7605254143618959484' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/7605254143618959484'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/7605254143618959484'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2009/05/crazyman-09-comcom-crazies.html' title='Crazyman 09 ComCom crazies'/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3619/3499738477_0151f89e63_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-3162799497000429945</id><published>2009-03-10T10:44:00.001+13:00</published><updated>2009-03-10T10:44:48.686+13:00</updated><title type='text'>Karapoti 09 Official pics</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/3342474072/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3662/3342474072_b46378e285_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/3342474072/"&gt;20x30-KPTD0275&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The official pics are online.  Click this image to see the rest of the set....&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-3162799497000429945?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/3162799497000429945/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=3162799497000429945' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/3162799497000429945'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/3162799497000429945'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2009/03/karapoti-09-official-pics.html' title='Karapoti 09 Official pics'/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3662/3342474072_b46378e285_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-4930559250409687329</id><published>2009-03-09T21:14:00.001+13:00</published><updated>2009-03-09T21:14:58.341+13:00</updated><title type='text'>Another Karapoti...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/3339458267/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3355/3339458267_f190b0160b_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/3339458267/"&gt;PG-1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;A muddy one this year.  The Wellington summer buggered off a few weeks ago and it's been raining off and on ever since...making for a pretty messy course.  Times reflected the conditions with this year's winning time being about 2hrs 28min.....which is about 10-15 minutes off a dry track pace.  &lt;br /&gt;This pic is just before the finish...my bike's looking clean cause it's just been dragged through the last river crossing...&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-4930559250409687329?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/4930559250409687329/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=4930559250409687329' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/4930559250409687329'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/4930559250409687329'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2009/03/another-karapoti.html' title='Another Karapoti...'/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3355/3339458267_f190b0160b_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-4271929793404972469</id><published>2009-02-05T19:38:00.001+13:00</published><updated>2009-02-05T19:38:16.610+13:00</updated><title type='text'>Paydirt</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/3254407223/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3490/3254407223_7b93e917d7_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/3254407223/"&gt;Paydirt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;I doubt anyone's overly interested in seeing a pic of spuds....but I'm pretty psyched about it!  It's the first batch out of the Tama st garden.  There's way more than I thought there would be....&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-4271929793404972469?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/4271929793404972469/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=4271929793404972469' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/4271929793404972469'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/4271929793404972469'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2009/02/paydirt.html' title='Paydirt'/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3490/3254407223_7b93e917d7_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-251046906608639901</id><published>2009-01-29T18:00:00.001+13:00</published><updated>2009-01-29T18:00:25.449+13:00</updated><title type='text'>More lycra</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/3235178269/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3133/3235178269_dc5038691c_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/3235178269/"&gt;More lycra&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Training continues.  This was our second assault on the Wainui loop.  Managed to knock an hour off our previous time....&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-251046906608639901?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/251046906608639901/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=251046906608639901' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/251046906608639901'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/251046906608639901'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2009/01/more-lycra.html' title='More lycra'/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3133/3235178269_dc5038691c_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-2258993214471576310</id><published>2009-01-05T16:38:00.001+13:00</published><updated>2009-01-05T16:38:08.935+13:00</updated><title type='text'>Taupo Moss Sunset</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/3166114052/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3124/3166114052_b00556f09c_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/3166114052/"&gt;Taupo Moss Sunset&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Gettin all arty with the camera in Arcadia Bay, Taupo.   We're all back in Wellington and biked out after another successful mission to Napier, Rotorua and Taupo.  One of the highlights was a fantastic 2 hr night ride with Erik through the forest on Jan 1, 2009.  Rolled back in to the campgrounds after 11pm, had a beer and shower and hit the sack as the clock rolled over for Jan 2.  Great way to start the new year.&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-2258993214471576310?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/2258993214471576310/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=2258993214471576310' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/2258993214471576310'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/2258993214471576310'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2009/01/taupo-moss-sunset.html' title='Taupo Moss Sunset'/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3124/3166114052_b00556f09c_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-7384200439194978785</id><published>2008-12-17T21:31:00.001+13:00</published><updated>2008-12-17T21:31:21.018+13:00</updated><title type='text'>Karapoti_Training</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/3114757817/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3153/3114757817_16dc467c7f_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/3114757817/"&gt;Karapoti_Training&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;First visit to Karapoti for this season.  Didn't manage the full course this time...just the Challenge course...a damn good training ride tho.&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-7384200439194978785?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/7384200439194978785/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=7384200439194978785' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/7384200439194978785'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/7384200439194978785'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2008/12/karapotitraining.html' title='Karapoti_Training'/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3153/3114757817_16dc467c7f_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-2948796257946537833</id><published>2008-12-01T19:14:00.001+13:00</published><updated>2008-12-01T19:14:46.395+13:00</updated><title type='text'>Southern Cross</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/3072960515/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3283/3072960515_905fbf9e99_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/3072960515/"&gt;Geeks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The only pic in  existence of the tech team....probably for the best.&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-2948796257946537833?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/2948796257946537833/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=2948796257946537833' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/2948796257946537833'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/2948796257946537833'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2008/12/southern-cross.html' title='Southern Cross'/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3283/3072960515_905fbf9e99_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-8589388489014259360</id><published>2008-12-01T18:33:00.001+13:00</published><updated>2008-12-01T18:33:59.707+13:00</updated><title type='text'>Registered</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/3073738210/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3017/3073738210_5e492b0504_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/3073738210/"&gt;Registered&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Finally registered for Karapoti.  If my number is anything to go by.....it's filling up fast.&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-8589388489014259360?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/8589388489014259360/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=8589388489014259360' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/8589388489014259360'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/8589388489014259360'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2008/12/registered.html' title='Registered'/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3017/3073738210_5e492b0504_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-6659917248616588720</id><published>2008-11-19T20:01:00.001+13:00</published><updated>2008-11-19T20:01:25.707+13:00</updated><title type='text'>Mt Vic Singletrack</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/3042334781/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3184/3042334781_138b572fec_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/3042334781/"&gt;Mt Vic Singletrack&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Not too tanned and not too fit......&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-6659917248616588720?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/6659917248616588720/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=6659917248616588720' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/6659917248616588720'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/6659917248616588720'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2008/11/mt-vic-singletrack.html' title='Mt Vic Singletrack'/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3184/3042334781_138b572fec_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-4348569488069116677</id><published>2008-11-09T15:12:00.001+13:00</published><updated>2008-11-09T15:12:00.135+13:00</updated><title type='text'>Wild Wellington-Night laps</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/3013727481/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3204/3013727481_a7815315c7_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/3013727481/"&gt;Wild Wellington-Night laps&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Lights were needed for the last hour and a half of the race.  It was a stunning, calm, clear evening in Wellington with lots of spectacular views over the city from parts of the course&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-4348569488069116677?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/4348569488069116677/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=4348569488069116677' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/4348569488069116677'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/4348569488069116677'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2008/11/wild-wellington-night-laps.html' title='Wild Wellington-Night laps'/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3204/3013727481_a7815315c7_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-9210145383291578516</id><published>2008-11-09T15:09:00.001+13:00</published><updated>2008-11-09T15:09:00.101+13:00</updated><title type='text'>Wild Wellington-Another lap</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/3014563306/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3276/3014563306_b1c319780c_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/3014563306/"&gt;Wild Wellington-Another lap&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Esther heads into the velodrome to complete another lap&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-9210145383291578516?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/9210145383291578516/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=9210145383291578516' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/9210145383291578516'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/9210145383291578516'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2008/11/wild-wellington-another-lap.html' title='Wild Wellington-Another lap'/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3276/3014563306_b1c319780c_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-7655302786869349077</id><published>2008-11-09T15:08:00.001+13:00</published><updated>2008-11-09T15:08:11.768+13:00</updated><title type='text'>Wild Wellington-Jarlath</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/3013729319/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3178/3013729319_40dc2a30f1_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/3013729319/"&gt;Wild Wellington-Jarlath&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Jarlath stoked to be in after another flying lap around Mt Vic&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-7655302786869349077?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/7655302786869349077/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=7655302786869349077' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/7655302786869349077'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/7655302786869349077'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2008/11/wild-wellington-jarlath.html' title='Wild Wellington-Jarlath'/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3178/3013729319_40dc2a30f1_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-7109321372225877483</id><published>2008-11-09T15:07:00.001+13:00</published><updated>2008-11-09T15:07:23.812+13:00</updated><title type='text'>Wild Wellington-Esther Knievel</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/3014563764/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3021/3014563764_7873177f06_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/3014563764/"&gt;Wild Wellington-Esther Knievel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Evil Knievel would be proud.....Esther's second crash of the day leaves her with skin missing from her arm and leg.  She went back out for another lap...and crashed again.  Legend!&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-7109321372225877483?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/7109321372225877483/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=7109321372225877483' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/7109321372225877483'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/7109321372225877483'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2008/11/wild-wellington-esther-knievel.html' title='Wild Wellington-Esther Knievel'/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3021/3014563764_7873177f06_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-6420831666728997550</id><published>2008-11-09T15:05:00.001+13:00</published><updated>2008-11-09T15:05:32.599+13:00</updated><title type='text'>Wild Wellington-bruised Toni</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/3014561668/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3208/3014561668_e8259a4333_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/3014561668/"&gt;Wild Wellington-Toni bump&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;On Toni's last lap of the day her bike slid out from underneath her on a sharp downhill turn....leaving her with a sore shoulder and this weird lump!&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-6420831666728997550?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/6420831666728997550/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=6420831666728997550' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/6420831666728997550'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/6420831666728997550'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2008/11/wild-wellington-bruised-toni.html' title='Wild Wellington-bruised Toni'/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3208/3014561668_e8259a4333_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-1660216666429060013</id><published>2008-11-09T15:02:00.001+13:00</published><updated>2008-11-09T15:02:51.510+13:00</updated><title type='text'>Jarlath Wild Wellington</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/3014550938/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3026/3014550938_ce1b23718a_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/3014550938/"&gt;Jarlath Wild Wellington&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Jarlath heads out for another Wild Wellington lap&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-1660216666429060013?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/1660216666429060013/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=1660216666429060013' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/1660216666429060013'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/1660216666429060013'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2008/11/jarlath-wild-wellington.html' title='Jarlath Wild Wellington'/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3026/3014550938_ce1b23718a_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-41682422896507010</id><published>2008-11-09T15:01:00.001+13:00</published><updated>2008-11-09T15:01:12.934+13:00</updated><title type='text'>Wild Wellington Tents</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/3013718811/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3042/3013718811_6d498b6dec_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/3013718811/"&gt;Wild Wellington Tents&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Yesterday saw the second running of the Wild Wellington 12hr mountain bike relay.  The sun came out for the race after freezing rain and HAIL the previous day in Wellington.  &lt;br /&gt;The course winds its way in a 6km, figure 8 loop through Mt Victoria from Haitaitai in the south to Oriental Bay in the north.  Lots of climbing, lots of fun singletrack and a few tricky technical bits...including one fast downhill over loose soil and tree roots. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our team, 'Cunning Stunts' was made up of Jarlath, Esther, Toni and Pete.  Our 5th rider, Barry, wasn't able to join us due to a back injury.  He did a great job supporting the team from 8:30am to 10:30pm when we finally headed home.&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-41682422896507010?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/41682422896507010/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=41682422896507010' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/41682422896507010'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/41682422896507010'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2008/11/wild-wellington-tents.html' title='Wild Wellington Tents'/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3042/3013718811_6d498b6dec_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-622891134974604974</id><published>2008-10-20T07:17:00.001+13:00</published><updated>2008-10-20T07:17:18.580+13:00</updated><title type='text'>Tama St Veges</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/2955533410/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3074/2955533410_f9cf03f444_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/2955533410/"&gt;Tama St Veges&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;This is phase two of the Tama St landscaping project...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3 x 1x1.7m 'no dig' vege boxes. Not sure why they're called 'no dig'.  I seemed to spend the best part of the weekend digging up the lawn to make room for these things.  &lt;br /&gt;Garden includes lettuce, capsicum, onion, spinach, peas, corn and eventually strawberries (the garden center had none in stock this weekend).  All should make for good eating for the slugs, snails and caterpillars...&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-622891134974604974?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/622891134974604974/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=622891134974604974' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/622891134974604974'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/622891134974604974'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2008/10/tama-st-veges.html' title='Tama St Veges'/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3074/2955533410_f9cf03f444_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-5740796784084751669</id><published>2008-10-14T07:13:00.001+13:00</published><updated>2008-10-14T07:13:35.918+13:00</updated><title type='text'>The Boys</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/2938212153/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3142/2938212153_e58785a802_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/2938212153/"&gt;The Boys&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Max, Tom and Ferg planning their next assault...&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-5740796784084751669?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/5740796784084751669/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=5740796784084751669' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/5740796784084751669'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/5740796784084751669'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2008/10/boys.html' title='The Boys'/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3142/2938212153_e58785a802_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-7497726086860113699</id><published>2008-10-14T07:06:00.001+13:00</published><updated>2008-10-14T07:06:13.200+13:00</updated><title type='text'>TommyG</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/2939047928/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3073/2939047928_010769ea53_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/2939047928/"&gt;TommyG&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Tom at Doug and Em's place on the weekend....&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-7497726086860113699?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/7497726086860113699/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=7497726086860113699' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/7497726086860113699'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/7497726086860113699'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2008/10/tommyg.html' title='TommyG'/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3073/2939047928_010769ea53_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-426043502345824701</id><published>2008-09-18T07:12:00.001+12:00</published><updated>2008-09-18T07:12:46.627+12:00</updated><title type='text'>Santa Monica</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/2865394143/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3223/2865394143_a672aa6b21_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/2865394143/"&gt;Santa Monica Cropped&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Somehow only managed 3 rides on this holiday...including this one in the hills above Santa Monica. Plenty of fire-road climbing and singletrack descent. The temp was mid to upper 30's and had us (Brent and I) heading for shade whenever we could find it.&lt;br /&gt;Apparently this track runs for quite a few miles, paralleling the coastline in the Santa Monica hills. We only rode a small section of it...wlll have to get back there and ride some more....&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-426043502345824701?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/426043502345824701/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=426043502345824701' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/426043502345824701'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/426043502345824701'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2008/09/santa-monica.html' title='Santa Monica'/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3223/2865394143_a672aa6b21_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-7048623539812551906</id><published>2008-09-16T07:27:00.002+12:00</published><updated>2008-09-16T07:30:03.649+12:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/2860443292/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3227/2860443292_88d85f50c7_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="margin-top: 0px;font-size:0;" &gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/2860443292/"&gt;Gin and B3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Gin waits patiently for her turn with the plastic rattle....&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-7048623539812551906?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/7048623539812551906/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=7048623539812551906' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/7048623539812551906'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/7048623539812551906'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2008/09/gin-and-b3.html' title=''/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3227/2860443292_88d85f50c7_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-4558532031495071350</id><published>2008-09-16T06:14:00.001+12:00</published><updated>2008-09-16T06:14:52.422+12:00</updated><title type='text'>Coach Upton</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/2859603755/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3121/2859603755_1db47f3343_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/2859603755/"&gt;Coach Upton&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Huge!  Smile coached Kristin Armstrong to Individual Time Trial Gold at Bejing.  That's her on the cover of Velonews!&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-4558532031495071350?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/4558532031495071350/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=4558532031495071350' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/4558532031495071350'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/4558532031495071350'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2008/09/coach-upton.html' title='Coach Upton'/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3121/2859603755_1db47f3343_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-4208043013582520918</id><published>2008-09-16T05:57:00.001+12:00</published><updated>2008-09-16T05:57:39.626+12:00</updated><title type='text'>Golden Gate Night</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/2860398060/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3103/2860398060_634c4d7505_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/2860398060/"&gt;Golden Gate Night&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Ok, have finally got the blog back online.   Arrived back in Wellington yesterday after a great 2 week break in San Francisco.  Caught up with all the crew over there, managed to get a few rides in too...including a couple of new trails in Santa Monica and Santa Cruz.&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-4208043013582520918?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/4208043013582520918/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=4208043013582520918' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/4208043013582520918'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/4208043013582520918'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2008/09/golden-gate-night.html' title='Golden Gate Night'/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3103/2860398060_634c4d7505_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-3168354329390791806</id><published>2008-05-04T10:13:00.001+12:00</published><updated>2008-05-04T10:13:12.895+12:00</updated><title type='text'>Team Decommissioned</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/2461984433/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2401/2461984433_2c3881cc03_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/2461984433/"&gt;Team Decommissioned&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Our 2008 Crazyman Team...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Richard Buchan kayaker/runner, yours truly on the mtn bike.  We'd had heavy, southerly rain the night before the race...making the cross country run and the mtn bike stages super muddy/slippery.  Great fun!  Not sure how we placed yet....the Crazyman website is offline this morning.&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-3168354329390791806?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/3168354329390791806/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=3168354329390791806' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/3168354329390791806'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/3168354329390791806'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2008/05/team-decommissioned.html' title='Team Decommissioned'/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2401/2461984433_2c3881cc03_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-651330056553091673</id><published>2008-05-03T21:43:00.002+12:00</published><updated>2008-05-04T10:15:46.611+12:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/2461417722/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2157/2461417722_cbb4e1b5fd_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="margin-top: 0px;font-size:0;" &gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/2461417722/"&gt;Crazyman08&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Crayman 08 Finish line.  The team this year was subsidised in part by the Commerce Commission where my teammate (Rich Buchan) and I both work.  This pic is at the end of bike leg.... the last event in the race.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-651330056553091673?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/651330056553091673/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=651330056553091673' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/651330056553091673'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/651330056553091673'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2008/05/crazyman08.html' title=''/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2157/2461417722_cbb4e1b5fd_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-3810871787903448607</id><published>2008-04-26T08:18:00.001+12:00</published><updated>2008-04-26T08:18:25.313+12:00</updated><title type='text'>Makara, April 25, 2008</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/2440925959/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2065/2440925959_2309c4af23_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/2440925959/"&gt;Makara, April 25, 2008&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Anzac Day 2008. Jarlath at the top of Aratihi. Makara Peak mountain bike park.&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-3810871787903448607?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/3810871787903448607/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=3810871787903448607' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/3810871787903448607'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/3810871787903448607'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2008/04/makara-april-25-2008.html' title='Makara, April 25, 2008'/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2065/2440925959_2309c4af23_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-818984057630802128</id><published>2008-04-16T07:15:00.001+12:00</published><updated>2008-04-16T07:15:43.728+12:00</updated><title type='text'>Belmont Regional Park, April 13, 2008</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/2414468090/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3206/2414468090_30f600c55d_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/2414468090/"&gt;Belmont Regional Park, April 13, 2008&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Kev with Wellington Harbour in the background&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-818984057630802128?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/818984057630802128/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=818984057630802128' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/818984057630802128'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/818984057630802128'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2008/04/belmont-regional-park-april-13-2008.html' title='Belmont Regional Park, April 13, 2008'/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3206/2414468090_30f600c55d_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-8228196340923103627</id><published>2007-05-31T16:54:00.000+12:00</published><updated>2007-05-31T16:56:14.329+12:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SGP4n0-w6zM/Rl5VPViW5EI/AAAAAAAAAAk/kr5_kS_1oec/s1600-h/Thomas+26052007.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SGP4n0-w6zM/Rl5VPViW5EI/AAAAAAAAAAk/kr5_kS_1oec/s320/Thomas+26052007.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5070583952433407042" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tommy G hittin it up for Petone under 11's on Saturday.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-8228196340923103627?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/8228196340923103627/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=8228196340923103627' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/8228196340923103627'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/8228196340923103627'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2007/05/tommy-g-hittin-it-up-for-petone-under.html' title=''/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SGP4n0-w6zM/Rl5VPViW5EI/AAAAAAAAAAk/kr5_kS_1oec/s72-c/Thomas+26052007.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-5077534275339950416</id><published>2007-05-27T08:26:00.001+12:00</published><updated>2007-05-27T08:26:05.778+12:00</updated><title type='text'>Dec at Valley Cycles this weekend</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/515056418/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/214/515056418_ea99dc073a_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/515056418/"&gt;Valley Cycles&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Declan at his bike shop in Aro Valley with GK's old Merlin.  Dec's built it up as one of the sweetest singlespeeds in the city...inlcuding carbon rigid fork, gold chainring and a fancy, invisible chain tensioner (it's in the rear hub). Go you good thing!&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-5077534275339950416?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/5077534275339950416/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=5077534275339950416' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/5077534275339950416'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/5077534275339950416'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2007/05/dec-at-valley-cycles-this-weekend.html' title='Dec at Valley Cycles this weekend'/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/214/515056418_ea99dc073a_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-7015773984520730818</id><published>2007-05-08T08:34:00.000+12:00</published><updated>2007-05-08T08:35:13.089+12:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SGP4n0-w6zM/Rj-Nf7cmsiI/AAAAAAAAAAc/7nNZVki0eRg/s1600-h/IMG_1476.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_" style="CLEAR: both; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SGP4n0-w6zM/Rj-Nf7cmsiI/AAAAAAAAAAc/7nNZVki0eRg/s320/IMG_1476.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Eastbourne wharf for the start of the Crazyman 2007 duathalon.  Rich Buchan cranked out the run for our team.....then handed over to me for the bike leg.  This had to be one of my worst rides ever.  It's been months since I've done any training and it all came back to bite me on the ass on the second climb.  I've either gotta start training or give up racing!&lt;div style='clear:both; text-align:LEFT'&gt;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-7015773984520730818?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/7015773984520730818/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=7015773984520730818' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/7015773984520730818'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/7015773984520730818'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2007/05/eastbourne-wharf-for-start-of-crazyman.html' title=''/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SGP4n0-w6zM/Rj-Nf7cmsiI/AAAAAAAAAAc/7nNZVki0eRg/s72-c/IMG_1476.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-4186686349947915432</id><published>2007-04-30T21:38:00.000+12:00</published><updated>2007-04-30T21:40:33.611+12:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SGP4n0-w6zM/RjW5W732mtI/AAAAAAAAAAU/VNfao1HmUiA/s1600-h/Ferg.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SGP4n0-w6zM/RjW5W732mtI/AAAAAAAAAAU/VNfao1HmUiA/s320/Ferg.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5059153560100838098" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ferg catching up on the local Kapiti news....&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-4186686349947915432?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/4186686349947915432/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=4186686349947915432' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/4186686349947915432'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/4186686349947915432'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2007/04/ferg-catching-up-on-local-kapiti-news.html' title=''/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SGP4n0-w6zM/RjW5W732mtI/AAAAAAAAAAU/VNfao1HmUiA/s72-c/Ferg.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-66474359042325592</id><published>2007-04-30T21:21:00.000+12:00</published><updated>2007-04-30T21:25:32.598+12:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SGP4n0-w6zM/RjW11732msI/AAAAAAAAAAM/dTMC6UvJIFo/s1600-h/Alicetown.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SGP4n0-w6zM/RjW11732msI/AAAAAAAAAAM/dTMC6UvJIFo/s320/Alicetown.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5059149694630271682" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;It's taken a while but I've finally found a house.  Not moving in tell the end of May.  Sorry...no more pics till then...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-66474359042325592?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/66474359042325592/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=66474359042325592' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/66474359042325592'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/66474359042325592'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2007/04/its-taken-while-but-ive-finally-found.html' title=''/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SGP4n0-w6zM/RjW11732msI/AAAAAAAAAAM/dTMC6UvJIFo/s72-c/Alicetown.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-8658622022009732401</id><published>2007-04-21T15:57:00.001+12:00</published><updated>2007-04-21T15:57:44.190+12:00</updated><title type='text'>Lyall Bay</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/460329146/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/183/460329146_9315c7717f_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/460329146/"&gt;Lyall Bay&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Lyall Bay last Sunday. A decent southerly swell and a light northerly usually means crowds out at the bay....especially on the weekend.&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-8658622022009732401?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/8658622022009732401/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=8658622022009732401' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/8658622022009732401'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/8658622022009732401'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2007/04/lyall-bay.html' title='Lyall Bay'/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/183/460329146_9315c7717f_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-117540950367434796</id><published>2007-04-01T19:35:00.000+12:00</published><updated>2007-04-01T19:38:23.683+12:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Finally got my ass back on the bike today. Nothing too exciting....just a quick trip (on the road) up Mt Vic on the Merlin, then back down the singletrack.  The legs have got no kick and the lung capacity is laughable.   My next race (The Crazyman) is coming up on May 5.....which gives me a month to find a bit of form.   Should be a challenge!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-117540950367434796?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/117540950367434796/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=117540950367434796' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/117540950367434796'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/117540950367434796'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2007/04/finally-got-my-ass-back-on-bike-today.html' title=''/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-117082638963174107</id><published>2007-02-07T18:29:00.000+13:00</published><updated>2007-02-07T18:33:09.656+13:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Great weekend up in Rotorua with Jarlath and Esther.  There's just no tiring of the trails in Whaka forest...and if you do happen to get tired..there's always the hot pools and wheat beer at the Belgium bar&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1778/41/1024/241811/Monday%20Ride%20023.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1778/41/400/93056/Monday%20Ride%20023.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-117082638963174107?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/117082638963174107/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=117082638963174107' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/117082638963174107'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/117082638963174107'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2007/02/great-weekend-up-in-rotorua-with.html' title=''/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-116881054071916455</id><published>2007-01-15T10:34:00.000+13:00</published><updated>2007-01-15T10:35:40.726+13:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>A mid summer ride at Makara in Wellington.....muddy and cold&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1778/41/1024/240723/Makara.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1778/41/400/91024/Makara.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;...and Moab is over 11,000km away!&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-116881054071916455?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/116881054071916455/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=116881054071916455' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/116881054071916455'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/116881054071916455'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2007/01/mid-summer-ride-at-makara-in.html' title=''/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-116337255106313868</id><published>2006-11-13T12:01:00.000+13:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T12:03:12.676+13:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Who's in?  Registration for Karapoti is open.  Race day is March  3rd...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karapoti.co.nz/"&gt;http://www.karapoti.co.nz/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-116337255106313868?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/116337255106313868/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=116337255106313868' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/116337255106313868'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/116337255106313868'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2006/11/whos-in-registration-for-karapoti-is.html' title=''/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-116190544981836156</id><published>2006-10-27T12:29:00.000+13:00</published><updated>2006-10-27T12:30:49.826+13:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>oops, pic didn't attach for some reason. Trying again&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1778/41/1024/IMG_0819.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1778/41/400/IMG_0819.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-116190544981836156?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/116190544981836156/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=116190544981836156' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/116190544981836156'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/116190544981836156'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2006/10/oops-pic-didnt-attach-for-some-reason.html' title=''/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-116166284784174856</id><published>2006-10-24T17:03:00.000+13:00</published><updated>2006-10-24T17:07:27.846+13:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Great weekend's riding in Rotorua.  A group of 8 of us went up and rented out a cabin at the Rotorua Thermal Holiday Park.  It's a genuine kiwi holiday park experience....thoroughly recommend it.  And it's only a 5 minute bike ride to the start of the mtb trails.  Can't beat that.  It was Jarlath's (pictured) first time in Rotorua.  One of the trickier tracks (Hot X Buns) got the better off him. He managed to leave some skin behind about 1/2 way down one of the dropoffs.  No serious injuries though. Good weekend, good riding.&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-116166284784174856?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/116166284784174856/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=116166284784174856' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/116166284784174856'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/116166284784174856'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2006/10/great-weekends-riding-in-rotorua.html' title=''/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-116107554470763952</id><published>2006-10-17T21:52:00.000+13:00</published><updated>2006-10-17T21:59:04.736+13:00</updated><title type='text'>Scooter</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/272059622/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/106/272059622_7e605fddac_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/272059622/"&gt;scooter.JPG&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Got me a motor for those days when I'm feeling too lazy to ride my bike 1km to work.....&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-116107554470763952?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/116107554470763952/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=116107554470763952' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/116107554470763952'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/116107554470763952'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2006/10/scooter.html' title='Scooter'/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-116035136604084888</id><published>2006-10-09T12:38:00.000+13:00</published><updated>2006-10-09T12:49:26.046+13:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Busy weekend in Wellington.  Moved into the new Mt Vic pad on Saturday.  I didn't have much stuff to move...mostly just clothes and the essiential bike stuff...oh and a bed.   Pete (pictured) had a whole bunch &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1778/41/1024/IMG_0802.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1778/41/400/IMG_0802.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; more including: 4 x couches, washer, dryer, fridge freezer, tv, stereo, bed etc etc.  Luckily he was only moving from one side of town to the other...so a round trip with the trailer only took 30 minutes or so.  We got it all down by about 3pm, then buggered off to the pub for a couple of hours.  Spent yesterday sorting the new place out.   The sky tv guy has been in and hooked us up already.   No internet yet though....Telecom claim they need 3 weeks to get the line sorted out. God knows why.  As luck would have it there's someone else in the building with an unsecured wireless network.....pretty unusual for NZ as all our broadband services are data capped.  Just about all wireles networks here are password protected....so finding an unprotected one was quite a fluke.   Will mooch off of that while I can.&lt;br /&gt;The sale of the korokoro house is underway...advertising will be out next week.  We had a 1/2 day of good weather yesterday....so the agent went up and took some pics of the house. Will post them when he sends me a copy.&lt;br /&gt;All for now&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-116035136604084888?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/116035136604084888/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=116035136604084888' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/116035136604084888'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/116035136604084888'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2006/10/busy-weekend-in-wellington.html' title=''/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-116000518844557738</id><published>2006-10-05T12:36:00.000+13:00</published><updated>2006-10-05T12:42:13.860+13:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>My mate Jarlath has booked our accom for Rotorua.  We were lucky to get into this place. We managed to secure the last decent size cabin.  The crew so far is... Jarlath and his mrs,  Tanja and her fella, me myself and I.  Brent is trying to get here too....but will have to fly in from China  cause he's a globetrotting dot comer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's our accom.....it's within biking distance of the mountain bike park....and there's thermal hot pools!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.rotoruathermal.co.nz/"&gt;http://www.rotoruathermal.co.nz/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-116000518844557738?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/116000518844557738/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=116000518844557738' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/116000518844557738'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/116000518844557738'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2006/10/my-mate-jarlath-has-booked-our-accom.html' title=''/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-116000340322483346</id><published>2006-10-05T12:06:00.000+13:00</published><updated>2006-10-05T12:10:03.236+13:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1778/41/640/Thursday%20Forecast.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1778/41/320/Thursday%20Forecast.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  I hate to go on about the weather....but this week has been a real gem.  A wintery blast came up from down south on Tuesday night and it's still with us today. Ferry crossings and flights in/out of Wellington have been cancelled, the local train system has been crapping out and even the trolley buses have stop and go.   Feels like we're back in the midst of winter again.  &lt;br /&gt;Have a Rotorua mountain bike weekend planned for Oct 21 thru 23. Hope the rain will have stopped by then!&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-116000340322483346?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/116000340322483346/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=116000340322483346' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/116000340322483346'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/116000340322483346'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2006/10/i-hate-to-go-on-about-weather.html' title=''/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-115983220104594798</id><published>2006-10-03T12:25:00.000+13:00</published><updated>2006-10-03T12:36:41.056+13:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Lunchtime Tuesday in Wellington.   The weather packed up about a week ago and shows no signs of improving.    Haven't been out on the bike for bloody ages.  I've got lots of excuses...none of them are particularly valid.   I better start doing some miles soon though....a few friends have arranged a road trip to RotoVegas for Labour weekend which is only about 3 weeks away.  Better get training!&lt;br /&gt;Moved house last night. I've been house sitting dad's place for the last few months.  A couple of weeks ago my sis and her family moved in and have taken over house sitting duties.....so I've moved on.  Am looking after Wayne's pad this week, he's away in Turangi for a holiday with his kids.  On Saturday I'm moving to a flat in the city with a couple of people from work.  Will post pics when I get organized.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-115983220104594798?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/115983220104594798/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=115983220104594798' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/115983220104594798'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/115983220104594798'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2006/10/lunchtime-tuesday-in-wellington.html' title=''/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-115923198971325443</id><published>2006-09-26T12:47:00.000+12:00</published><updated>2006-09-26T12:53:09.720+12:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Played my first game of rugby on Sunday!  &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1778/41/640/DSCF1265.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1778/41/320/DSCF1265.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  One of the fellas at work signed the ComCom up for a 10-a-side corporate games tournament.  We had 1 practice.... a couple of nights before the game...then it was straight into it.  I was kinda hoping my bike fitness would get me through the game...but it didn't. Luckily we had a few subs and I was able to come off for a break.&lt;br /&gt;We played 3 games (10 minute halves), we won 1 and lost 2.   One of our fellas broke his collar bone in the second game and had to get taken to hospital. yikes!&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-115923198971325443?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/115923198971325443/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=115923198971325443' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/115923198971325443'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/115923198971325443'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2006/09/played-my-first-game-of-rugby-on.html' title=''/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-115706663076853818</id><published>2006-09-01T11:18:00.000+12:00</published><updated>2006-09-01T11:23:50.770+12:00</updated><title type='text'>Race start</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/230110343/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/97/230110343_d1135cabc4_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/230110343/"&gt;Race start&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Another pic from the adventure race. Everyone's pretty much ready to go...apart from our team. At this point Brent is still driving in across the Golden Gate (in the background) with the lifejackets.&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-115706663076853818?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/115706663076853818/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=115706663076853818' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/115706663076853818'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/115706663076853818'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2006/09/race-start.html' title='Race start'/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-115706652742315915</id><published>2006-09-01T11:16:00.000+12:00</published><updated>2006-09-01T11:22:07.490+12:00</updated><title type='text'>Team Meeting</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/230110348/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/93/230110348_d22864470a_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/230110348/"&gt;Team Meeting&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The San Francisco Big Blue adventure race was held in the Bay area last  Sunday. Greg convinced Brent and I to join him in a 3 man team. The event included an 8 mile kayak around Alcatraz Island, a 25 mile mountain bike ride through the Marin headlands, and an 8 mile run through the Presidio.  Brent and I have never kayaked before but managed to get the 2 person kayak out and back without incident. Greg drew the short straw and had to paddle a 1 man kayak the same distance.    Due to a logisitcal error (forgetting the life jackets) we started the kayak in last place.  By the time we finally got started the rest of the field had about a half mile head start on us. We managed to pull in one team and transitioned to the bikes in 2nd to last place. &lt;br /&gt;The biking proved to be pretty tough. All 3 of us knew the trails really well but by the end of the ride we were suffering from lack of water and food.  We finished the bike leg in 15th place (up from 52nd).  &lt;br /&gt;The running wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be.  It was more of a jog/walk with regular stops.  Part of the race involved finding checkpoints on a map using either a compass bearing or a visual clue.   We found all except one of the checkpoints and crossed the finish line about 9.5 hours after we started.  Not sure how we placed overall.    Good day though. &lt;br /&gt;In the pic Greg and Brent are checking the map/directions to plot the best course to the various checkpoints.&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-115706652742315915?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/115706652742315915/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=115706652742315915' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/115706652742315915'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/115706652742315915'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2006/09/team-meeting.html' title='Team Meeting'/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-115612331505864401</id><published>2006-08-21T13:16:00.000+12:00</published><updated>2006-08-21T13:21:55.136+12:00</updated><title type='text'>Most excellent ride</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/220354379/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/95/220354379_e637de168a_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/220354379/"&gt;Rotorua_70km&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Was up in Rotorua this weekend. Drove up Friday afternoon, stayed with Erik, Pauline and the kids.   Lined up for a 70km mtb race on Saturday thorugh the Whakarewerawa trail network.  Mountain biking doesn't get any better than this.  Fantastic single-track for mile after mile.  &lt;br /&gt;I didn't have a great race...my lack of fitness started to become apparent at about the 40km mark. I had to wobble my way to the end from about 20kms out.  &lt;br /&gt;All the big guns are in Rotorua this week for the World champs.  Quite a few of the pro teams did Saturday's 70km ride...for training.  The winning time was 2 hrs 59 mins. I managed to stop the clock at 4 hrs 45 min! Ouch.&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-115612331505864401?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/115612331505864401/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=115612331505864401' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/115612331505864401'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/115612331505864401'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2006/08/most-excellent-ride.html' title='Most excellent ride'/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-115463829216569618</id><published>2006-08-04T08:46:00.000+12:00</published><updated>2006-08-04T08:51:32.246+12:00</updated><title type='text'>Pete Karapoti 06</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/205953204/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/78/205953204_39833c05d4_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/205953204/"&gt;pete_karapoti_06&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally got around to ordering my Karapoti pic.  Only took me 3 months! Here it is.....the action shot.   For the first time (since I've been doing Karapoti anyways) there was a photograher at the top of the Devil's Staircase.  This pic is a bit deceptive....it looks like I'm jogging up the staircase....the truth is that I grovelled my way up most of it only put in a sprint for the camera.  I collapsed in a heap as soon as the shutter clicked.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Haven't done a race since.   But that's about to change.   There's racing next weekend in Makara, and the following weekend in Rotorua. Stay tuned!&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-115463829216569618?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/115463829216569618/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=115463829216569618' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/115463829216569618'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/115463829216569618'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2006/08/pete-karapoti-06.html' title='Pete Karapoti 06'/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-115446886306047774</id><published>2006-08-02T09:35:00.000+12:00</published><updated>2006-08-02T09:49:39.070+12:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;font-family:arial;" &gt;Just a quick update. ....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;font-family:arial;" &gt;Rode with Jarlath and Tanja from work last night. Climbed Mt Vic a couple of times.   Great views of the city from the top.  Short ride though....&lt;1&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rode in today too.  Light rain in Wellington today.  Rush hour traffice was crawling along...but the bike lines were clear!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm looking to replace my messenger bag.  The one I have now is appox 10 years old.  I picked it up from A to Z couriers, NYC when I installed their "Kiwi Express" system for them back in the '90s.  The messenger bag rocks.  I 've been doing a bit of research on it.   It's made by Globe canvas in NYC...here's what I was able to find...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The messenger bag as we know it today, however, originated in the 1950s or thereabouts, being produced as a bag for telephone linemen, by Globe Canvas/De Martini in New York. The linemen needed a bag they could easily access while climbing telephone poles, and this design worked perfectly. New York bicycle messenger companies picked them up sometime in the 1970s, and initially were purchased one color per company, as identifiers of a sort. For a long while, NYC was the bastion of the messenger bag - until things started to spread in the 1980s".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've checked in with Smilie....he keeps in touch with Mark at A to Z.  Apparently they no longer use/provide messenger with the Globe Canvas bags....so I'm not going to be able to replace with one I have (at least not with one that has the A to Z logo on it).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also....Mr De Martini (the original maker of the bag) is no longer alive...but before he died he sold his company on to Rod Hanson...who continues to make the bags.    He has a &lt;a href="http://www.demartinibags.com/"&gt;website &lt;/a&gt;and an 800 number. I'll give him a call when I'm in SF and get a new bag ordered!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-115446886306047774?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/115446886306047774/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=115446886306047774' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/115446886306047774'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/115446886306047774'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2006/08/just-quick-update.html' title=''/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-115438885794022451</id><published>2006-08-01T11:28:00.000+12:00</published><updated>2006-08-01T11:34:17.956+12:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>haven't been posting much lately.  My broadband connection at home is in transition. I've cancelled my Slingshot service and signed up for Telstraclear (cable). It's not going to be online for a couple of weeks.....but will work out cheaper in the long run.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have managed to get out a bit on the bike.   Am doing a regular Sunday morning mtb ride with some Hutt Valley lads.  Several of them are motocross demons and are lethal going downhill on the moutain bikes. I've got no hope of keeping up.   Enjoying the ride though...it's 3+ hours in the hills up behind the house in Korokoro.  Fireroad/road climbs...and sweet singletrack downhills.  Good times.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Am also riding Tuesday nights with an Aussie chick from work. We're trying to get a 1-2 hour ride in at Makara Peak....which is awesome at night.   A bit cold this time of the year....but still tons of fun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Other than that I'm just doing my regular commute rides.  Legs are starting to feel a bit stronger. Am hoping to peak when I get to California!  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh....there's a 70km mtb race coming up in Rotorua (as part of the world champs) next month.   A few of us from work have signed up for that.....should be interesting!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-115438885794022451?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/115438885794022451/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=115438885794022451' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/115438885794022451'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/115438885794022451'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2006/08/havent-been-posting-much-lately.html' title=''/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-115291283689065960</id><published>2006-07-15T09:29:00.000+12:00</published><updated>2006-07-15T09:33:56.896+12:00</updated><title type='text'>Ferg</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/189634696/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/77/189634696_82b3eccd95_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/189634696/"&gt;Ferg&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;And her other bro.....Ferg.&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-115291283689065960?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/115291283689065960/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=115291283689065960' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/115291283689065960'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/115291283689065960'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2006/07/ferg.html' title='Ferg'/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-115291269408083843</id><published>2006-07-15T09:27:00.000+12:00</published><updated>2006-07-15T09:35:40.540+12:00</updated><title type='text'>Max</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/189636130/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/71/189636130_7c36abc2a1_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="margin-top: 0px;font-size:0;" &gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/189636130/"&gt;Max&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Amy (my niece) has just returned to Wellington after spending the school holidays with her family in Greymouth.  She took the camera with her and snapped a few family pics for me. This is her brother, Max.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-115291269408083843?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/115291269408083843/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=115291269408083843' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/115291269408083843'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/115291269408083843'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2006/07/max.html' title='Max'/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-115269878533187763</id><published>2006-07-12T22:02:00.000+12:00</published><updated>2006-07-12T22:06:25.373+12:00</updated><title type='text'>Mooted</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/187960865/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/49/187960865_4f3d159468_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/187960865/"&gt;Mooted.JPG&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Got the Merlin back from Dec.   He's replaced the rear shock and had a good laugh at the state of the old unit. Those spirals and rings in the pic are what remains of the old spring. It was competely stuffed. The only thing that was kddping in together was the shock housing. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dec has installed the new spring/stancions etc.....will ride to work tomorrow and report back in.&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-115269878533187763?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/115269878533187763/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=115269878533187763' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/115269878533187763'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/115269878533187763'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2006/07/mooted.html' title='Mooted'/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-115260572804576519</id><published>2006-07-11T20:13:00.000+12:00</published><updated>2006-07-11T20:15:28.056+12:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>The folks from Merlin came through. A complete rebuild kit for rear shock on the Merlin arrived in the mail yesterday. It may seem like it's taken ages to get here...but I only confirmed the order last week. I'm surprised it arrived so quickly. &lt;br /&gt;I've dropped the bike and the rebuild kit off to Declan....he's going to pull everything apart and have a go at rebuilding it. &lt;br /&gt;I'm bikeless at the moment....which means I'm drving to work. Hopefully not for much longer!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-115260572804576519?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/115260572804576519/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=115260572804576519' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/115260572804576519'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/115260572804576519'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2006/07/folks-from-merlin-came-through.html' title=''/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-115156909007800431</id><published>2006-06-29T20:14:00.000+12:00</published><updated>2006-06-29T20:18:10.126+12:00</updated><title type='text'>Trek Top Fuel</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/177567083/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/46/177567083_19298f15f1_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/177567083/"&gt;Trek Top Fuel&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;have been busy today working on a bike purchase.  It's a bit tricky...the bike is 8,000 miles away.  So far it's going surprisingly well!&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-115156909007800431?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/115156909007800431/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=115156909007800431' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/115156909007800431'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/115156909007800431'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2006/06/trek-top-fuel.html' title='Trek Top Fuel'/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-115145986175234264</id><published>2006-06-28T13:53:00.000+12:00</published><updated>2006-06-28T13:57:41.790+12:00</updated><title type='text'>Wgtn harbour</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/176699039/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/67/176699039_8828dc35ba_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/176699039/"&gt;Wgtn harbour&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Finally a decent day in Wellington. We've had southerlies and rain for the last few weeks.  Everyone's out enjoying the sun and calm weather in the city today&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-115145986175234264?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/115145986175234264/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=115145986175234264' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/115145986175234264'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/115145986175234264'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2006/06/wgtn-harbour.html' title='Wgtn harbour'/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-115140016118360929</id><published>2006-06-27T21:18:00.000+12:00</published><updated>2006-06-27T21:22:41.210+12:00</updated><title type='text'>Bolton Street</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/176161300/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/62/176161300_59459a2d65_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/176161300/"&gt;Bolton Street&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Picked up a new camera today.  I'm a bit rusty on the flickr/blog thing so I figured I'd post up a test to get going again&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-115140016118360929?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/115140016118360929/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=115140016118360929' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/115140016118360929'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/115140016118360929'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2006/06/bolton-street.html' title='Bolton Street'/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-114513373218026681</id><published>2006-04-16T08:42:00.000+12:00</published><updated>2006-04-16T08:42:12.196+12:00</updated><title type='text'>Joey and Storm</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/129037033/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/49/129037033_9457334bc5_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/129037033/"&gt;Joey and Storm&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Joey and her 2 year old border collie, Storm. This pic was taken yesterday at the dam at the top of the korokoro stream track. The track is popular with dog walkers, mountain bikers joggers and hikers and is a gateway to the Belmont Regional Park.&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-114513373218026681?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/114513373218026681/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=114513373218026681' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/114513373218026681'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/114513373218026681'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2006/04/joey-and-storm.html' title='Joey and Storm'/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-114478421082265794</id><published>2006-04-12T07:36:00.000+12:00</published><updated>2006-04-12T07:36:50.840+12:00</updated><title type='text'>Two lads</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/127092091/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/36/127092091_3e2c8924ca_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/127092091/"&gt;Two lads&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;This is Max and Ferg. They're my older sister's (Em) two boys. Max is 3, Ferg is 1. They live in Greymouth but have recently been regular visitors to Wellington.&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-114478421082265794?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/114478421082265794/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=114478421082265794' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/114478421082265794'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/114478421082265794'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2006/04/two-lads.html' title='Two lads'/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-114336859241206894</id><published>2006-03-26T22:23:00.000+12:00</published><updated>2006-03-26T22:25:19.600+12:00</updated><title type='text'>Tom_rugby.JPG</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/118049753/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/49/118049753_a450b306fb_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="margin-top: 0px;font-size:0;" &gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/118049753/"&gt;Tom_rugby.JPG&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Summer's pretty much over in Wellington. Tom's cricket season finished up last weekend and rugby started on Saturday. Tom's playing for Petone Under 10's this season. It's his second season of tackle!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-114336859241206894?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/114336859241206894/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=114336859241206894' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/114336859241206894'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/114336859241206894'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2006/03/tomrugbyjpg.html' title='Tom_rugby.JPG'/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-114314135062675913</id><published>2006-03-24T07:15:00.000+12:00</published><updated>2006-03-24T07:15:51.083+12:00</updated><title type='text'>Shock Repair</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/116864355/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/46/116864355_833a068aa9_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/116864355/"&gt;shock.JPG&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The rear shock on the Merlin is starting to show it's age. The good folks from Merlin Metalworks are helping me find some replacements bits for this beastie.&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-114314135062675913?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/114314135062675913/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=114314135062675913' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/114314135062675913'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/114314135062675913'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2006/03/shock-repair.html' title='Shock Repair'/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-114172409289201392</id><published>2006-03-07T22:31:00.000+13:00</published><updated>2006-03-07T22:36:27.303+13:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>New Zealand's equvilant of ebay was sold to an Australian Media company yesterday for $700M. The founder of TradeMe began the business in Wellington 6 years ago.  See here for details:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3595009a28,00.html"&gt;http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3595009a28,00.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,MS Sans Serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-114172409289201392?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/114172409289201392/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=114172409289201392' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/114172409289201392'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/114172409289201392'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2006/03/new-zealands-equvilant-of-ebay-was.html' title=''/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-114172144081120270</id><published>2006-03-07T21:50:00.000+13:00</published><updated>2006-03-07T21:50:40.813+13:00</updated><title type='text'>Are you a New Zealander?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/109123419/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/52/109123419_e0c7e2db4e_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/109123419/"&gt;KiwiCensus&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;March 7, 2006 is census night in New Zealand. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The New Zealand Census of Population and Dwellings, held every five years, is the official count of the total number of people and dwellings in New Zealand. On census night, everyone in the country must fill in a census form.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Question 11 has been a hot topic for kiwis in this year's census. The question asks the individual to identify with an appropriate ethnic group.  Curiously, there's no option for 'New Zelander'.  Apparently there are no New Zealanders living in New Zealand. Rumor has it they've all buggered off to Australia. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An email has been circulating through offices around the country in the weeks prior to the census encouraging census takers to check the 'other' option and type 'New Zealander' in the text field rather than check one of the pre-configured options. &lt;br /&gt;Will look forward to the results and see  how many New Zealanders we really have down here&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-114172144081120270?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/114172144081120270/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=114172144081120270' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/114172144081120270'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/114172144081120270'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2006/03/are-you-new-zealander.html' title='Are you a New Zealander?'/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-114143946219154727</id><published>2006-03-05T15:31:00.000+13:00</published><updated>2006-03-04T22:11:57.500+13:00</updated><title type='text'>Bake off continued</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/107410814/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/48/107410814_16f9cda770_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="margin-top: 0px;font-size:0;" &gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/107410814/"&gt;kitchen3.JPG&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Another action shot from the bakeoff.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-114143946219154727?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/114143946219154727/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=114143946219154727' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/114143946219154727'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/114143946219154727'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2006/03/bake-off-continued.html' title='Bake off continued'/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-114143775416201099</id><published>2006-03-05T15:02:00.000+13:00</published><updated>2006-03-04T22:39:29.103+13:00</updated><title type='text'>Rainy Saturday</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/107410731/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/56/107410731_d6336ff88a_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="margin-top: 0px;font-size:0;" &gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/107410731/"&gt;kitchen1.JPG&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;We've got a wintery southerly in Wellington today. The Picton ferries have been cancelled due to big seas...and gale force winds are causing chaos around the region.&lt;br /&gt;Dropped in at mum's place at lunchtime just in time to catch a head to head bake-off between Gran and Amy. Gran rattled off a great batch of scones, and Amy came back with a fine tray of coconut and banana muffins. Luckily I was there to judge and, after several scones, muffins and cups of teas....declared a draw&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-114143775416201099?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/114143775416201099/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=114143775416201099' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/114143775416201099'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/114143775416201099'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2006/03/rainy-saturday.html' title='Rainy Saturday'/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387080.post-114143969240884439</id><published>2006-02-27T15:34:00.000+13:00</published><updated>2006-03-04T22:07:06.076+13:00</updated><title type='text'>Oraki Korako</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/107427754/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/43/107427754_b9baeb38fd_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="margin-top: 0px;font-size:0;" &gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64858515@N00/107427754/"&gt;Oraki Korako&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/64858515@N00/"&gt;kiwipete&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Pat and Andy getting ready to roll back to Wellington after another successful boys weekend on the Waikato&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23387080-114143969240884439?l=kiwipete.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/feeds/114143969240884439/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23387080&amp;postID=114143969240884439' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/114143969240884439'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/23387080/posts/default/114143969240884439'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kiwipete.blogspot.com/2006/02/oraki-korako.html' title='Oraki Korako'/><author><name>kiwipete</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
