We took the pace a little slower this evening (suited me too) with good chat as usual before taking on Charity Lane. A personal reflection - much more confident and 'on it' this week, although I need to push my fitness a little I think to get the most out of the run. The bottom end though really is super knarl these days, the winter has taken a lot of the softer material out of the rock strata on the bottom berm, and the freeze thaw has broken up the edges making the middle a boulder field - it's just not as fast as it used to be, well on a hardtail anyway.
Having seen some pretty mega tree felling from the cars we decided to do the full loop - so standing at the view point is quite different now! Cool to ride past the 'north shore steps' from days of old... the descent back to the cars was fast and fun. Lots of smiles...
Getting home I decided to replace my chain - easy task made difficult by me not sorting the cranks properly and wrapping the chain between the cranks and chain device upon testing causing some damage to the aluminium spider of the chain device. Some judicious bending has restored it's shape but it's still not quite right and the new chain needs to bed in a bit... Fingers crossed she doesn't play up too much next week.
Tomorrow, Jon is riding at Lee before heading up to Scotland with Leo and crew - have a good weekend riding lads!
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