Sunday Ride

The perfect day: A lovely frosty start with blue skies and sunshine in abundance.

Today was to be my first ride on the mighty beast Specialized Enduro, and I was going to meet up with the big boys - Gary, Jase, Frank and company. For some lessons in hooligan riding on bike bikes in preparation for the Megavalanche :-)

JD turned up at ten and we set out in glorious sunshine. I was immediately off the back on the hills. The enduro weighs around 35lbs and has 150mm of squishy suspension. within 10km I was exhausted :-)

It was fun to hoon it around the rooty singletrack, chasing the guys. It's quite a bit too much bike for the Surrey Hills and is tiring accelerating out of bends in the typical twisty rooty stuff we have here. But, point it down straight bumpy and rocky stuff and it surfs over everything.

Gary was looking fit and says his cojones are growing steadily :-)

Cross training

This weekend we went to Wales for some hiking and running as training for the Three Peaks Trial.

We hiked over Bal Mawr from Llanthony Priory and back, a tough 11.5 km. It was very cold on the top of the mountain and some scattered snow on the paths.

Sunday we ran six km over the lanes. My calves hurt!

We are going to do the platinum route again. Last year with the very good weather we managed 05.15 for the 30km and Juanita was third person home(she outsmarted me in the sprint) I think we could probably equal that this year and maybe take a few minutes off if we're lucky.