Well, this has been a long time between drinks. LazyLantern has been very lazy, whilst the rest of life has caught up with me.What has happened? Well, the reality of a new child in 2009 hit home with the force of a tank, we moved from the warm fuzzy blanket-like feel of our inner city home to the brave new world of suburban melbourne, we made some hard decisions about our son's education and started to come to terms with the realities of dealing with the human failings of our family. And that is just the start. Overall, despite this, it has not been a bad year, but not a good one either. Just one with lots of work- vocational, domestic and psychological.
As to cycling, which I guess this blog is largely about, well it has taken a back seat to the rest of the action.
Top cycling moments of the year have been a return to the dirt, with the move affording the extra space to have a true mountain bike (as opposed to my faithful commuter, which is a MTB in the same way that a sultana was once a grape); destroying my much loved Colnago CT2 by driving it into the garage roof, whilst on top of the car- a definite lowlight; riding the RideTheWorlds event at the Road Cycling World Championships in Geelong- truly a great experience; and buying my new road bike, a gorgeous DeRosa Merak- not the bike I would have gravitated toward if my decision had been made slowly and precisely, but I am glad of the way it panned out- kind of like fate.
Onto new beginnings. Downhill to the end of the year and bring on 2011.
