So Tuesday morning saw me going for a run around Princess Park, in the rain no less. This made it about 1 month between running efforts, so I took it easy so I would not hurt too much. That didn't work, and had very sore quads all day Wed.
I have decided that I either need to run weekly or not at all.
Anyway Wed saw a quick turnaround from work to play, I was home for all of 15 minutes and Jas and I were out on the MTB's heading for the Fat Tyre Flyers Wed night ride. This ride will certainly improve your skills as its either going throttle or paused waiting for the back markers. So after about 1km of bitumen we hit the mullum mullum trails and followed dirt for the next hour and a bit arriving at the start of the ride at 6.30pm.
After some really good and overdue rain the tracks were in great condition, tonights ride would head away from the city towards Hans loop on the East side of Fitzsimmons Lane. On completion of this loop we had been going for about an hour and a half at full throttle and my legs were toast, so I impelled Jas to ride home from Templestowe instead of back to Ivanhoe and then home.
So we headed East as the Fatties ride continued back West to Ivanhoe. We managed to stick to dirt almost the entire way back to North Ringwood. We had a minor detour as we came to our normal spot to rock hop across the creek and found a raging current, so we had to backtrack and hop a couple of electric fences, cut through a paddock to get around the creek.
Once we have climbed Craig's road, which is always a killer after a long ride, we coasted home. So we had racked up about 4hrs of saddle time and really enjoyed the mud and rain.
The Family is heading off to Rye this weekend so hopefully there will some fun to be had on the water, if its not too cold!
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