October 2018 Video and Round Up
Video on the new Terra Trailblazers You Tube channel click here and don't forget to subscribe so you never miss another episode of old blokes riding slowly around the moors on mountain bikes; scenery is nice though.
Quite a good month, October and plenty of rides done, albeit short rides, mainly because an injured medial collateral knee ligament forced a few unwanted rest days on me. After several months of dry weather, October threw in a bit of rain to keep us on our toes. Early in the month, a freshly wetted forty five degree slope and a lack of circumspection put my flexibility to the test with an attempt at doing the splits which left me limping for the next three weeks.
This year’s Lakeland Monster Miles had to be cancelled owing to the Storm Callum, we’d rented a cottage for a week anyway, so, in true British fashion, we made the most of it and it turned out to be a good week. I even sullied myself by going walking a few times. Luckily there was plenty of Jennings Bitter on hand to erase the memories of my defilement.
Back on home turf, sun and showers about sums it up, although we had a present from Ullr, the Norse god of snow, who left us a sprinkling of the white stuff around the moors. We squeezed lots of, mainly short, rides in the latter half of the month, averaging three or four a week, digging out the mudguards and waterproofs as the arid tracks of summer become sloppier and stickier.
Most of these rides went unblogged, I just didn’t find the time to write them up - how did I ever have a job too? And let’s be honest, if nobody can be bothered to fall off or crash, there’s not that much to write about, so, come on you Terra Trailblazers, do your duty. Here are the unblogged routes.
29th October (whoops, forgot to save to Garmin) Danby with The Breadlad
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