My back has been getting better week on week recently. Is it the 4 months of Pilaties? is it the fact I am not driving 32 thousand miles a year in a worn our car seat ?or just time? No idea but it means I am feeling confident enough to ride for a little longer and up steeper hills and for the first time in 2 years have been thinking about Mountain Bike Orienteering again.
I had originally intended to do the Military Challenge but this year it doesn’t seem to be taking place. A quick look at the BMBO website showed a fun Dark and White Christmas event on the Friday before, just up the road from me at Carsington Water adventure center – perfect.
The weather forecast was terrible and to be honest I felt terrible too, with what I know now to be a good dose of man-fu.
Rocking up in the cold and dark, it was great to see Adrian and the Dark and White team again after so long and it was great to be finally doing my first event as a Vet, two years in!
I got some advice from Adrian about bumpy tracks to avoid, strapped on my long unused hope vision 4 ( now 4 years old and still going strong), Orifix mapboard and compass and headed out into a vicious head wind, intending to stay on the roads.
I’d decided I wouldn’t push my luck and go out for the full two hours allowed and the combination of my man-fu and my sensible head brought me in nice and early in time to catch up with a few old friends over some coffee and cakes. There were some serial comedy moments as people tried to make coffee and tea with the tea urn that actually contained mulled wine….
Lets hope this is the start of a recovery season !
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