A Definite Sense of Something

 

Weather: Still wall to wall blue sky. Temp-5 deg C at 6am to 10 deg C at lunchtime.
Activity: Mountain bike(s), total 39.85km (25.32km trail commute on Bob & 14.53km singletrack thro forest on The Other). Total ascent 1598ft
Today's Tune: Little Lion Man, Mumford & Sons
Comment: Gerroff my sprouts!

This morning while we were all getting ready for work/school - happened to notice an early visitor in the garden..

We now have no sprouts left...(some in this household would argue that is a Good Thing)

Gorgeous ride in this morning but really cold still - though there is a hint of warmth in the sun now and the temperature reached the heady heights of 10 deg C at lunchtime today. After return commute on Bob - mostly on boring trail (but disappearing down along the infinitely more exciting river bank at every opportunity), and having been dumped for a joiner of all things by my friend I was supposed to be going to check running trails out with, I decided that there was no way I was staying inside and so, when I got home, took spare bike (a Scott HT henceforth known as The Other) out for some singletrack action through the local forests and a general dusting off. I felt like I was cheating on Bob (who is a much nicer ride despite being 'lower' spec apparently) and I'd forgotten how crap the stock pedals are on the Scott so I now have a 2 inch gash on my shin where my muddy foot slipped off. I'm pleased to have got a good 3 hours in today and put in some reasonable mileage and I had fun (the important bit) but I do detect a definite sense of pissed-off'd ness about me. Or maybe its a restlessness. Not sure which or why....

Found this little hitchhiker attached to the backside of the Scotts rear light...I think he'd been there the entire ride. I think its a Scalloped Hook Tip moth but I'm not sure?

Reet, am off for lasagne and a soak in the bath (separately). I'll leave you with this old clip that a mate sent me the link to last night - I'll apologise now, 'Extreeeeme' is in the title - and its not so much what they guys on the bikes are doing but more what the camera people do. Heeeeeee!