Things Are Not Really Turning Out How We Expected

RUBY

Quotes of the week "Bloody Rubenstein" and "I need a bumpy day so that I can bring myself back". I am going to leave it to you to figure out where those came from.

It was a slightly less testosterone filled week with none of the Needle competitors threatening to have each other disqualified. While this is perhaps disappointing, we always have next week.

Tuesday seemed like a bit of a smaller field with only Kantor, Erasmus and Farrel and there were rumours that Erasmus caught Farrel on the downwind. This was out of the view of the judges so perhaps we should just ignore this as simple conjecture and posturing on the part of the Show Pony.

Dave Black's Thursday series is getting some good interest and there was a good strong field led out of the blocks by yours truly (jumping the start still counts). The front bunch of Ruby, Farrel, Sean Rice, Tom Schilperoort and Solly quite quickly disappeared into the distance but even from back there I was able to see the panic at Currin Point (The Lighthouse) and Ruby's excuse for not taking the win was that the rest of the bunch caught the break while he hooked a sharp left on the way back.

I for one am just glad that Anton is not a competitor here as he is currently handing me my arse on a plate.

Sunday was pretty awesome and Erasmus raced like a champion although we do need to work on his aggression as he wasn't able to look after his wave when the juggernaut of Iain Black came a calling.

Claimed my win over Farrel this week, I can now retire.

So the updated standings see Ruby far out ahead with Farrel next up which is the real upset of the season so far. Erasmus and Kantor are now neck and neck and the Surfski paddler turned Ironman, Currin, will probably have to join us one of these days.

Langebaan next weekend, should be good.