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06/04/07: I’m just going outside, and I may be some time…
OK, so the BBC were right this time. Woke up Sunday morning to find everywhere under a blanket of snow. But we decided to go biking anyway!
Needless to say, it was again ‘a bit nippy’, but it was also a lot of fun. I actually did a full lap of FTD, including the new section at the top of the fire road hill. Most of the sections I really enjoyed, and felt I put in a passable performance.
Unfortunately on the new section my confidence took a bit of a knock - I took the first two jumps fine, mainly because I wasn’t expecting them. However, I bottled it on the following jumps (as I was looking out them). It’s something I’ve noticed a lot - there are obstacles that I have trouble with mentally (berms, jumps), but if I don’t think about them too much I can do them. Weird.
I also started to panic that I was holding people up…and I didn’t much fancy someone’s front wheel parking itself in my arsecrack. It’s quite difficult to get up much speed when you’re looking out for people behind rather than at the track ahead! That said, I had a great time on all the other sections, and everything’s a learning experience - I remember last year that I felt pretty similar on most of the sections!
Ride: Cannock Chase
Trail: Follow the Dog
Highlights: Doing all of Follow the Dog for the first time this year. Biking in ze mud! My Camelbak not tasting like a swimming pool. And section 13, oh how I’ve missed thee!
Bad bits: Losing my bottle on the new section.
Post ride food snaffled: Bacon sandwich, chocolate shortbread.
Good dogs seen: Er, none. Think they were all curled up by the fire, nice and cosy.