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finally managed to get a day back that i was owed 
(although i had to go in on sunday to make it possible :x , so i didn't really get the day back!) getting the days owed from my boss is like the blood and stone thing, still have a week owed from last years holiday!
anyway, i digress. since this leaves me with 2 days off coz tomorrow is my normal day off i thought i'd try and do a proper ride both days! this time of year (winter ) i struggle to convince myself to stay on the bike for more than an hour or so i decided to make myself do it. aiming for 40 miles!
left the house at 1pm, headed for "kings copse" a half mile away, straight onto the trails, few ups and downs, trying to get my breathing right, totally didn't! wheezing like an asmatic old biddy! sorted myself, hit the road to beaulieu and then picked up trails to brockenhurst, riders in the distance, gotta have em . . . did, then kept the pace up, gotta leave 'em standing otherwise they'll catch me back up and i hate that! you look like a knob if you can't keep the pace and they overtake you! go through a gate to brockenhurst, avoid the road, pick up a trail to lyndhurst, more up and down than i remember but nail it just to get the hill out of the way, go through next gate, see a customer (bugger!) thank god i'm not in shop kit, he would have recognised me and he's hardwork! nail it past him, keep going, it's a fast downhill, past some people walking a dog, let them know i'm coming by locking the back wheel momenterrily, it worked, they scatter like pigeons! only the dog is chasing!!!! big thing aswel! dog loses interest, just aswel, uphill now and legs are tiring! she sells sanctuary comes on the ipod, cool, love the track, pick up the trails back to beaulieu, managed to stay pretty much offroad for most of the ride! legs are dying, don't take the short cut! you'll regret it! come out of the enclosure through a dodgy housing estate, pick up a trail back to kings copse and home via a nice little jump i noticed on the way out! 37miles on the speedo, gotta be happy with that!
as wu would say "best ride of my life" . . . well so far this year anyway!
isle of wight tomorrow!
(although i had to go in on sunday to make it possible :x , so i didn't really get the day back!) getting the days owed from my boss is like the blood and stone thing, still have a week owed from last years holiday!anyway, i digress. since this leaves me with 2 days off coz tomorrow is my normal day off
i thought i'd try and do a proper ride both days! this time of year (winter ) i struggle to convince myself to stay on the bike for more than an hour or so i decided to make myself do it. aiming for 40 miles!left the house at 1pm, headed for "kings copse" a half mile away, straight onto the trails, few ups and downs, trying to get my breathing right, totally didn't! wheezing like an asmatic old biddy! sorted myself, hit the road to beaulieu and then picked up trails to brockenhurst, riders in the distance, gotta have em . . . did, then kept the pace up, gotta leave 'em standing otherwise they'll catch me back up and i hate that! you look like a knob if you can't keep the pace and they overtake you! go through a gate to brockenhurst, avoid the road, pick up a trail to lyndhurst, more up and down than i remember but nail it just to get the hill out of the way, go through next gate, see a customer (bugger!) thank god i'm not in shop kit, he would have recognised me and he's hardwork! nail it past him, keep going, it's a fast downhill, past some people walking a dog, let them know i'm coming by locking the back wheel momenterrily, it worked, they scatter like pigeons! only the dog is chasing!!!! big thing aswel! dog loses interest, just aswel, uphill now and legs are tiring! she sells sanctuary comes on the ipod, cool, love the track, pick up the trails back to beaulieu, managed to stay pretty much offroad for most of the ride! legs are dying, don't take the short cut! you'll regret it! come out of the enclosure through a dodgy housing estate, pick up a trail back to kings copse and home via a nice little jump i noticed on the way out! 37miles on the speedo, gotta be happy with that!
as wu would say "best ride of my life" . . . well so far this year anyway!
isle of wight tomorrow!
