cycling – Freya Hill

Heartbeat

August 14, 2019August 14, 2019 freya

Heartbeat The morning we first saw you, the little flicker of you, started as rainy and wet. It was the first day of Spring, although it still felt very wintry. Your daddy had fixed the brakes on my bike, and I followed him up the hill from our house, on our bikes, in the dark of the weekday morning. Your daddy has always looked natural on a bike. I’ve seen a photo of him at only 4 years old riding a bike, with the same confidence and poise that he…

Otago Central Rail Trail – A Winter Adventure

September 8, 2014November 12, 2014 freya

I warned that there would be at least one point of the trip that I would completely lose it, and possible throw my bike down on the trail and yell ‘That’s it! I’ve had enough.’ He replied ‘Well that’s fine, but if that happens I wil remind you that this was your idea.’ And it was – doing the Central Otago Rail Trail in the middle of winter actually was my idea. You wouldn’t guess it was my suggetion, as one of us owns three bikes and cycles 40km…