Last Saturday I headed up to the Lake District to meet up with Eóin and two guys, John and Rich, that we met in Spain a couple of years ago who now guide for CycleActive up there. The weather was perfect – dry, frozen trails, sunshine, and snow covering all the surrounding mountains (but not the trails!) made for amazing views.
It was such a nice change to be able to ride everything after the sloppy, muddy riding I’ve had in Yorkshire recently. Loads of fast, rocky trails, tough technical climbs and descents, and climbs that last longer than a couple of minutes! The lads are all pretty quick going down so it was good trying to keep up with them.
After 4 hours and 60km we were all pretty tired but buzzing from a great day out in ‘proper’ mountains. I came back wondering why we don’t spend more time up there, and dying to get out on the mountain bike again.