WPC Bike Ride On The Wilderness Trail

 On Wednesday 26th May Room 8 set off in our car groups to go for a bike ride as a class for the William Pike Challenge. My car group was my Dad, Emma, Hannah, Olive and I which was really good. When we got to the start of the Mananui Tramline bike ride we unpacked all our gear and had to find the bearing we were at in our groups with a compass. Most of us girls were at the front on the way there and the boys at the front on the way back. 

It was freezing when we were biking and there was frost which made it feel even colder. All of our hands were so cold and I just wanted a bucket of warm water to put my hands in! We stopped about 3 or 4 times and one stop was at the sign for Picnic Point which I was a bit worried about because someone said they had walked it once and it was not very bike able but it turned out we weren't doing it anyway.  When we got to the end of the track we had a snack and then started again. The track was quite cool because it had a few tree roots you could go over but they were easy enough for everyone to go over even if you weren’t that confident. I liked the bridge we had to go over too. We had a few more stops on the way back but we did pretty well. It took us about and hour and a half to go there and back which was pretty good.At the end of the first bike we all packed up and then drove to Hurunui Jacks which was our second bike ride.

When we got to Hurunui Jacks we had lunch. Donna and Nadia’s group took a little longer to get there because they got a little lost but they got there in the end. Once we were all ready to go we started the track. We biked quite fast and I really liked the first section of the track. I didn’t really like the big hill just before the start of the water race that was there. I biked up the whole way but the whole time I really wanted to get off but I kept going. I was pretty happy with getting up the hill because I was one of the only ones who did it. I loved doing the water race! We weren’t going super fast but it was really fun! I enjoyed biking with some of the girls on the way. We got to the end of the water race and then had a talk about who was going on with the fast group and who was going to be a little slower.

We started the water race with the fast group going first and then the slower group going next. I stayed in the middle most the way and I also biked with Billie and Breanna which I really enjoyed. I liked going back better because I was going a little faster and the hill I biked up was really fun to go down. On the track there are two parts with dips and a small creek in them.  The first one I took the easy way and went across on the bridge. The second one I decided to go down through the creek. It might have been  a small mistake. It was quite rocky going through and everybody was watching so I was a little nervous! I rode down fine and went through the water all good but going back up the hill I wobbled lots and almost fell off and everyone went “Oooh!” Which was pretty embarrassing. We finally got to the end of the track and we loaded up and went back to school. This bike ride also took us about an hour and a half to do. I had so much fun and I would definitely want to do it again!