Thursday night / Friday morning brought down a dumping of snow; too much to play golf in, too little to sledge on, just right to ride on. Slapped on the new Primos onto the MBS and off into the wilderness.
On the open fairways the going was good with no so much speed, but enough of the back end twitching to get the heart rate raised a little. Further fun on the regular wooded runs where despite quite a lot of rain in the last week was drained sufficiently and running well enough to keep things interesting with only the worst boggy areas killing speed. Found a couple of new lines that on their own don't amount to much, but when linked together (and in good, dry weather I'm sure they will) should amount to a nice varied run with a few ways to mix things up.
Was about to leave for the morning, happy with a good 3 hours in the woods when met a fella called Pete on his mountain bike doing an afternoons off-road ride with local kids on behalf of Cycle Derby, a group set up to encourage cycling around Derby (funnily enough). Two bits of interesting information emerged; that he was keen to work with Derby City to possibly set aside an area of woodland specifically for a bit of biking (fingers crossed for downhill), and that his misses was a mountain boarder. Left him my business card so hopefully if anything emerges from this, or if s/he knows any good downhill tracks, to let me know. Watch this space.
In a last bit of good news, I'm in a bit of trouble with work for not taking enough holiday this year! Will have to get my thinking cap on as to how best use this time and where.....I know I've got a list of destinations that need ticking off and they're all quite hilly!
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If you need any help deciding where to spend you holidays, let me know ;)
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