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@dancing james
from the offroad thread
This is what Owainga and myself got up to:
http://connect.garmin.com/player/53362023
Swinley is awesome fun. The Lookout bit was populated by some interesting characters, a number of families appeared to have come straight from the Harry Enfield sketch with the dog that is just shouted at continually. They provided some comedy value, my slow mo crashes probably supplied the rest. The best one involved my wheel getting stuck in a rabbit hole that swallowed a 1/3rd of my wheel, cue me slowly (as Owain said) with balletic grace rotating over the handlebards to land on my back, get up and laugh.
We went around fire roads and a little singletrack in the first half and then did more singletrack later on. Our lack of map and pisspoor directional skills did not help us in finding the MTB area until later in the afternoon.
I shall be getting a blank memory card for the garmin and using open source maps for offroad stuff in future. The riding was great fun and lots of other avid cyclists bouncing around. I think this could well be the venue for us doing MTB training with Lucy on a weekend day soon. £2 for a day pass and there is ample space for us to go and practice some techniques in the morning and then do some loops in the afternoon putting new skills into practice.
Roll on next weekend...