Surfer Blog

Bloody hell, the Rough Ride was a complete bastard this year. I missed last years due to an injury and wasn't really aware of how much the route had been tweeked F%*k-me, it was just hard work. There were a few good little downhill sections (love the downhill) but 90% of the route was almost impossibly uphill With a few stops, it took 8hrs to get around ..... Aaaaagh!

Am I going to do it again next year ..... I think I might


The official pic from the day ..... taken on one of only a few downhill sections

Shite ..... the Rough Ride is the day after tomorrow. Off out to a Wedding evening do tonight and so even with the best of intentions I'm pretty sure I'm not going to remain very sober (equals a hangover in the morning).
Having a hangover the day before a 50-mile mountainbike challenge really isn't the best way to do things Still, it's better than what I did last year - popped into the town where the race is based for a quick pint the night before. Surely as I don't know anyone there, there was no risk of me drinking more than one sneaky pint. How wrong I was I started chatting to a couple of local girls and it wasn't until gone 1am that I staggered back to my tent Only to have to get up again at about 8am for the start of the race at 9.30am. I am soooooooo NOT going to do that again!

Ooooh, on an exciting front ..... will pay the balance of our holiday to Santorini tomorrow morning The holiday Co are getting very twitchy. We still have about another week or so to settle the balance (no point in paying all that money out too quickly) but we're already been sent two gentle reminders to pay-up

Done the deed and have entered myself for the Rough Ride again ........ bring on 45 miles of x-county fun/hell (and that's if the weather is dry .... a bit of rain and it's even worst!). Don't imagine that anyone apart from Barney will be joining me, so it'll just be the two of us again!