Singletrack Nation

Bike: Cotic Roadrat
Distance: 37 miles
Time: 2hrs 20mins

Bike: Commencal Meta 5.5
Distance: 7 miles
Time: 55mins

Best laid plans and all that.  Saturday was supposed to be a pure mountain ride through the muddy forest, slept in (how is that possible with kids) and missed the window of opportunity for 3 hours in the hills, so pulled the Roadrat out and hit the roads instead, same route as last week to see if the legs could cope any better, they didn’t but that was more down to the Arctic wind that tried it’s level best to freeze me to death.

Usual mix of car driving assholes doing their level best to either put me in the ditch or just plain run me over, lost count of the amount of friendly hand signals that were delivered and at least on one occassion a full on verbal assault – mental note to self, learn to calm down!

Legs were heavy at the end but it was a good ride none the less, no riding during the week made it more painful, that I know, aim this week needs to be to ride more, no matter how exciting it is staring at a blank wall – ride!

Sunday I needed to clear the head after one too many the previous night, so manage an hours escape on the proper bike round the local woods and paths, nothing too interesting to note other than the fact I managed to get out on the mountain bike, a joy to behold after 2 long weeks.  Some tweaking needed to the front mech, but that is an every ride occurrence these days!

Plans are afoot to get a really decent ride in this side of Chrimbo, fingers crossed 13th Dec should see us hitting the trails of Ballinastoe, if the internet tales are to be believed this will be better than the second coming, well almost but not quite.