Don't take this the wrong way

Got up this morning and set off to meet a mate to have a blast around Sherwood pines. The ride in was cool, I had my ipod on and every track selected by shuffle rocked.

I landed at pines and did a lap with John, and his ace dog called Toby, then set off on my own for a few more hours. Did five hours in total and loved it. Riding with mates is cool, but today I loved the isolation. The picture is the back end of Clipstone and as a local to Mansfield it is easy to put down where we live. This is backed up by the program 'coppers', but to be honest; there isn't that much up with our little mining town, just look at the picture.

Dalby Forest

A good weekend in many ways. I have just woke up to see a post on facebook that Andrew Cockburn and his wife Claire have just had their first child. All seems well and this is the third arrival in my circle of friends this last few weeks and all of them seem to be doing fine.

It is not easy having kids, but I must admit I am slightly jealous of that feeling of excitement and wonder of what the future might hold. If I am am honest I actually liked all the fuss people make of you at these times of your life.

Anyway my kids are currently harassing me for breakfast and the use of this computer that I am trying to write this blog on. Enjoy it guys while it lasts. Did a lap of Dalby forest though yesterday. I had great ride and enjoyed it but I do have a slight negative. This is because I backed out of worry gill, and crashed out twice attempting medusa. I think its a sign of age creeping up, I just switched off and you really must not when attempting silly things like that.

My mate Rob Upton flew down both, but he is young and I am not. I don't want to boost his ego too much but he really is going well. I also took delivery of some new team kit after swinging by sherwoodpines cycles. I am going to focus more this year on me and my racing, but it does feel good to part of a team as well.

Cannock Chase

A cold start to the morning, -4 to be precise. Not to worry though because we have had a really mild run of weather so far and it did not matter because the sun was shining.

I have to say well done to the people at Chase Trails though, opinion is something mountain bikers are not shy to give out. My opinion is that these trails are fantastic, so there! PS sorry to the lad who desperately tried to move out of our way which ended in a crash, bless him.

Need to start bloging

Its a funny time of year, not really sure of what training to do, not really sure of what bike to race and not really motivated to anything bicycle related. What I have been doing though is riding, doing a few sessions on the turbo trainer and watch what everyone else is up to.

Most people it seems have got their teams sorted, sponsors and planned their season already. I am far from that point but I am sure things will come good. So I am off to do some e-mails to people to see if they can help me out this year, this racing lark is expensive you know!