We had a lovely Mountain Bike ride last night and it was nice to see a number of new faces on the ride as well. We met at our usual spot near to Angler’s Retreat. As well as myself, there was Pete, who is now a regular rider having started riding with us last year, Amanada who was on her second outing with us, Matt who has made a few attempts to meet us and succeeded last night and two new members from the Tri club that I’ve encouraged to come along, Gareth and Graham.<\/p>\n
The sun was shining, there wasn’t a puff of wind and everyone was keen so we set off into Artists Valley via Al’s descent. As per usual when riding with new people you never quite know what they’ll be capable of so with Pete leading the way I decided to bring up the rear just in case. It wasn’t needed though as everyone was fine and we soon negotiated the ruts and made it to the bottom.<\/p>\n
Once at the bottom it was the usual long climb back to the top with gorgeous views down the valley to the Dyfi Estuary. We then headed off down the MX Trails where I did at least remember to take some video footage. I did film some other bits, but the recent wet weather meant that the trails were pretty damp and muddy so most of the time the camera was covered in crud!<\/p>\n
Here’s the video footage from this section – I was leading it so there’s no sign of anyone else.<\/p>\n