From Beach to Hills in Wales
We’ve just had another action packed weekend here in rural mid Wales. Thanks to our local katabatic wind I managed to windsurf every day last week and although the wind wasn’t forecast to be great for the weekend, Ivor kept blowing and I managed to windsurf on Saturday and Sunday morning in the estuary at Ynyslas.
The flat water conditions do get a little boring after a while so I spiced things up trying silly tricks like body drags and carving 360’s. Both of these are fairly pointless tricks but fun to try and I guess blasting backwards and forwards across the estuary is fairly pointless in itself anyway.
After our Saturday morning windsurf session Steve and I headed off to the hills for a mountain biking session. We drove up the mountain road behind Talybont and parked on the forest road at the top of this, then headed down and around Angler’s Retreat and up my favourite little gulley before heading across to and down the chute, climbing back up to the top and then virtually retracing our tyre tracks back along the gulley in the opposite direction and back to the car. The route was only just over 12 miles, but it was all offroad and therefore fairly slow. I came off once on a tricky rocky step. I very nearly made it, but the last rock caught me out and i ended up on the floor with a sore arm and bruised ego. Later in the ride a tree got the better of me too. I tired to brush past it as it only looked like a little branch, but it was having none of it, spring back at me and sent me flying.
Steve faired worse then me though with quite a few off’s and once the cleat on his shoe broke meaning he couldn’t unclip from his pedals he went to pot and ended up upside down stuck under his abike a couple of times!
All good fun though and a good day of activities in Wales. Click here to see this route on ShareMyRoutes.com ere is the Summary view of the route topography along with me heart rate and speed.
