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Thanks so much mate. I have always been a shortboard skateboarder - never been a fan of longboards, so I forced myself to use my every day board.

Thanks for your feedback, really appreciate it :)

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As an avid longboarder I have to give you props for doing that on a shortboard. I have no excuse now.

A million times this. So high off the ground, and soooo inefficient with the tiny wheels. Mad props.

Not to mention so much more likely to skid on a little rock. Insane trip

this happened a few times especially on the highway in the dark

thanks for your kind words!

would love to have seen a pic of you (don't take that the wrong way - i am sure you are cute as a button, but really i am curious about what you were wearing in the rain; was it warm? otherwise i can't imagine how you survived...).

All I wore was shorts and a t-shirt. I was cold the whole time but it was OK because I kept moving pretty much the whole way.

I was absolutely freezing waiting for my train at the station in Wollongong for a good 20-30 mins, and again on the train because it was air-conditioned. I was getting a bit worried as time went on because I was seriously cold. But I knew it would make that hot shower that much sweeter once I had arrived home, which it did.

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