Considering last year's opening day of events were dominated by near gale-force winds, yesterday's were, indeed, pretty well perfect.
A competitor in any outdoors event can be as fit and as skilled as is possible to be, but the great unfactored for factor is that thing called "the weather".
It has rain to create traction problems and wind to create stability problems, with the rain ingredient a killer of cricket.
Thus far across the land it has been an unsteady sort of summer, as evidenced by the strong winds of late and shivering temperatures of just 9C in Christchurch on Wednesday and snowfalls on the hills of Alexandra where lows of just 5C were recorded.
Wellington has been hammered by wind and rain for the start of the year (and the weeks leading up to it for that matter) and Auckland has also felt the winds and rains.
As we have, but to a much lesser degree.
Basically, in weather terms, we here in the Bay have so far been bullet dodging and dodging nicely.
One of the competitors yesterday smiled and reckoned the winds had been timed to blow themselves out before the weekend of cycling, and that any possible showers had also been planned to be brief and only occasional.
The hours of showers and gloom before the T20 international with Bangladesh lifted right on time and the park was bathed in sunshine.
New Year's Eve was fine and dandy and the arrival of the great liner Ovation of the Seas was also in sunshine ... that powerful ingredient for attracting tourism.
When it comes to summing up the Bay summer thus far when lined up against many other regions one can happily say you can't complain.
