A few weeks ago I headed over to Hannam’s with the BEP girls for a Sunday shred. Chloe Lemm was behind the camera (as she’s about to pop with bubba no.1, exciting times!) and so here are a few of the snaps she captured…
It was also my maiden voyage out on the Hyperlite Socialite which I’ll tell you all about in another blog, when I can, but short version is that I’m loving it 🙂
So last weekend it was the British Cable Wakeboard Nationals over at Box End Park. I’ve competed in the Nationals more times than I can remember and I haven’t missed one since I started. This year was no different.
I just had my second little boy and so I never really thought I’d be able to ride in this years’ event. But I did! I’m surprised I actually managed to get to my heat on time (thanks Jon for ‘babysitting’) let alone come 2nd in the Masters Ladies!
I squeezed in about 10 laps at BEP the Sunday before the event, so I managed to figure out what features I could hit and what I still had to avoid this soon after giving birth, and so I hadn’t really thought of a run until the morning of the finals. Managing the two kids plus serious tiredness sucks pretty much every ounce of brain power you have, (nap times, breast feeding, breast pumping, shitty nappies, naked obsessed toddler, bath times, bed times…wine, ahhhh).
In the qualifier I was loving just being on the water so much that I actually forgot I was in a comp run… I came round the drive tower and thought, ‘Theres the kickers’, and then as I got closer my next thought was ‘….HIT ONE!!’
I entered the event this year because it was my first year in the Masters Ladies and I was just so excited to be in this category! I just wanted to have fun with the other competitors, which I did, they were a great bunch of ladies to ride with! But I’m stoked to come away with 2nd place only eight weeks after I had my little bubba! Crazy!
Last weekend I had the chance to ride down to New Forest Wake Park for the first time since it opened. Its a fun little set up with some great toys to session. It was my second time back on the water after I had baby Oli just five weeks ago so as you can imagine, I was gagging to get on the water.
I rode for a whole hour this time and now I am paying for it. My body hurts and aches in places I’d forgotten I had, even my hands ache. Seriously?? What is going on there.
I actually hit some toys on this ride which felt good but I’m soooo sketchy at the moment… like super sketch – but I don’t care because I’m back on the water baaabbbbyyyyy and friggin loving it! Yeeeeah riding again!
Lex Balladon 