This morning I took the hardtail into work along the trail as it had stopped raining! Route was 70% mud fest though. I left it at work tonight and got a lift into town with Bike Boss Son tonight as my friend Sue and I are heading off into the hills on our bikes tomorrow (its my day off) from Banchory. It was a really lovely ride this morning, unhurried but keeping HR and cadence up. I'm almost convinced that my 'staff bike' next year will be a new mountain bike. I'm almost convinced its going to be a Cube or Merida and I'm positive its going to be a hardtail.....
Bike Boss came off his bike today and is now a mess of road rash. Nasty, really nasty......the bike is ok though. One slightly scuffed lever (Ultegra) and one slightly scraped saddle. Its quite amazing really as they were sprinting around 30 - 35 mph when it happened but C reckons Bike Boss's body took the impact instead of the bike. First crash on road bike in 37 years (many on mountain bike though..) and it could have been a lot worse.
Tonight N, Jnr and I went to the (climbing) wall for the first time in aaaages. Needless to say we were rubbish and stuck to the easy routes but I am pleased that I did don a harness and not freak out (I'm a boulderer at heart) and I did 7 routes in the 90 minutes we were there. I also really enjoyed it (more than I expected since I've had no hankerings at all to return to the vertical world) and my elbows didn't pop out again. N is up for this being a regular Thursday evening event hurrah! Jnr might take some convincing though...
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