Made it back to Sherwood.
Two laps with neither illness nor injury this time. My legs felt very fatigued towards the end, but I felt pretty good.
Managed a complete lap almost without stopping as well:
Sunday 20 April 2014
Tuesday 8 April 2014
Sherwood Pines - worst possible start to the MTB season
By season I mean riding season, not racing or anything fancy!
My colleague JM and I drove up to Sherwood for the first trail ride this year. It started fairly well. I think my lower weight made the climbs and balancing the bike a touch easier, but I think I'm significantly weaker from the diet as well. They've started to add rock gardens to the first quarter of The Kitchener Trail!
About a third of the way around the route I noticed that I was really struggling on the hills and while I felt like I was pedaling flat-out, I was just crawling along. About two thirds around I felt a lot worse, called it quits and went slowly and fecklessly (going kilometres out of the way) back to the trail centre via the fire roads.
No appetite to eat anything, I drank a Lucozade and headed home. Turns out I'd picked up a cold virus, and lost the rest of the day to lying in bed with a fever. Brilliant. What a great way to start the year.
Never mind though, I'll get back into it soon. I've tried to embed the Strava widget here, which isn't showing up in the preview, hopefully it will when I publish:
My colleague JM and I drove up to Sherwood for the first trail ride this year. It started fairly well. I think my lower weight made the climbs and balancing the bike a touch easier, but I think I'm significantly weaker from the diet as well. They've started to add rock gardens to the first quarter of The Kitchener Trail!
About a third of the way around the route I noticed that I was really struggling on the hills and while I felt like I was pedaling flat-out, I was just crawling along. About two thirds around I felt a lot worse, called it quits and went slowly and fecklessly (going kilometres out of the way) back to the trail centre via the fire roads.
No appetite to eat anything, I drank a Lucozade and headed home. Turns out I'd picked up a cold virus, and lost the rest of the day to lying in bed with a fever. Brilliant. What a great way to start the year.
Never mind though, I'll get back into it soon. I've tried to embed the Strava widget here, which isn't showing up in the preview, hopefully it will when I publish:
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