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Not as expected

I know I said I’d be with you bright and early yesterday but quite frankly I’d forgotten what my inbox gets like when I’ve been out of the office. So I thought I’d leave you in Dirks capable hands instead.

I’d like to say that I’m back all nice and refreshed but if I said that I’d be lying, what was supposed to be a chilled out weekend ended up being quite hectic. Saturday I was in the city, a bit of sightseeing along with a show, dinner and a few drinks. It was the second time I’ve seen the Lion King and it was even more fantastic than I remembered and so were the half price martinis, well what I remember of them!

Sunday and the sun was finally shining, it would have been a shame to waste the day curled up on the sofa (which was what I needed) so I thought I’d take the opportunity to finally test out the muvi camcorder. I’ve been saying I’d do it for months but the weather hasn’t been that great recently (I’m a fair weather outdoors person). So I dusted down the bike loaded it up in the van and off to Aston Hill Bike Park we went.

Finally get there and I realised I had two problems, firstly most of the park had been closed for a downhill competition and secondly I noticed I forgotten the camcorder. Unfortunately the only bit we were allowed on was the XC trail however a lot of the downhill parts on this trail had been taped off for the comp leaving mostly uphill, grr…….I DON’T do uphill!!

So had I had the camcorder all you would have seen was me pushing the bike very slowly up the hills. About an hour in to my relief there was a short cut back to the beginning, I had no hesitation in taking it.  Half hour later I finally made it back to the finish line with full on jelly legs. Definitely need to get fitter before I try that again.

It may have been hectic and not what I had hoped for but it was still a pretty awesome weekend!

M x