Text chimes from Mike....'You up for a ride'....afternoon sunshine, warm, you bet I am....get home...clouds roll in....rain....
....still, I need to ride....rain jacket on and we hit the trails....invigorating....fresh....feel alive....mud....lots of it....talk crap....put the world to rights....keep and eye out for that dog owner....soaked....love it....pfffffffft....puncture in my back wheel....oh, sh1t, just what I need in the p1ssing rain :x ....only a mile or so from home.....mini pump, pump, pump, pump....make it home just in time....hose the bike down....most rain and mud I've had in a long time; brilliant 

