Nothing, frustrated nothing.

As you may have gathered from my lack of entries in the last couple of days, not a lot has been happening, and that's bad. Sunday was the first time I've not ridden in the rain since 1999. I'd been concerned about washouts on the steep, winding and dirt Mt Jerusalem road, meaning I called of the November century at that point (oh, but the month isn't over yet!). I still should have got up and gone for a Springbrook or Binna Burra however -- no dirt roads in those areas, so it would have been just about perfect.

Then tonight I was due to go for a quick one with Martin, but I forgot to recharge my lights, and it turned out he couldn't make it due to other commitments, so I only have my commute to keep me company. Effectively it means only 51km so far this week. Often I'd have as many as 300km for the week by now (and rarely fewer than 200). Right at the moment I have all this energy hanging around, waiting for an outlet. There have been studies done in the past about endorphins and so on, but I think the practical upshot is that being active is an addiction. If I don't get any, I get frustrated. I think I'll make sure I get an Austinville or Hinze Dam tomorrow night regardless. Still, it's good to get some rain.

I did get up to one thing last weekend. I updated some journals from a couple of long-weekend tours I took earlier this year -- Lions Tourist Road and the now notorious East Egypt Road. Not quite on the scale of a circuit of Tasmania, but enjoyable weekends nonetheless.

The Victoria tour is now just four days away, and I've had to make a change. My spanky new front pannier rack isn't making the journey. To cut a long story short, it would need to be dismantled to fit in my airline bag, and I haven't yet worked out how to do that quickly (i.e. quick enough to catch a plane, or a re-assembly to ride out of an airport). If I can do a circuit of Tasmania with rear panniers only, I can do the same in Victoria. Hopefully the next 12 months will give me the chance to get it sorted before New Zealand in 2005.