Glentress Saturday 26.3.16

That's a dull one, hope everything is ok.

I will be in a blue Ford Focus ST. See you tomorrow mate.

He's fine steri-strips & antibiotics...quite a wide gash on the top of his ear where his mate's tooth accidently caught him !
Shame you can't make it Euan...but I'll pass on that !

First of all could I start this by offering up my total & profuse apologies to Kev ...as by the time 2.00pm came around with every article of clothing soaked completely through...we had had enough .
The problem was that I didn't have Kev's number..so had to wait until he contacted me to let him know and even then with no signal to call him directly the message didn't get to him straight away
I hate letting people down ..so can only hope that as he goes there most weekends that this wasn't a totally wasted trip.

As already mentioned it was wet...very wet
which took away a little bit of the gloss from the day ..
It was also very noticeable that winter has not been kind to the trails with a lot of the berms in particular needing maintenance...
Good to meet up with Andy once again..still as fit as ever and really good to meet Danny (danthor) who was a bit of a demon in both fitness and his mtb skills which he had transferred over from his dirt bike ...being young and relatively new to mountain biking I didn't really know what to expect ...but he could teach this old dog a few new tricks ..
I thought he must have had a crate of Redbull prior to meeting us as he likes a jump and spent as much time flying as he did on the ground !
The place was busy due to tomorrow's race ..with riders scoping the route today
It was still a good ride out ..but 3 hours and a good soaking was more than enough ...once again my apologies Kev .

Indeed a tad wet. Dan and I did head back up to buzzards nest after we parted ways with you but didn't see a transition bike. With cold setting in we headed back up to bbb and the lovely descent back to the cars.

A fun, if damp, day with the joy of having a stick go through my rear wheel jamming it and bending a spoke. Spooky is still fun but super g needs a bit of tlc.

To top it off here's the worst geordie accent ever as promised:

It really was a wet day although the weather didn't take too much away from the day I felt. 

It was really good to meet everyone and I will make the effort to visit your neck of the woods one weekend .

Once we split off we did burm baby burm and I didn't fall off this time haha so an improvment from the first run. We also went along the blue trails which I hadn't done before which I really enjoyed.

Thanks to everyone involved it was a really good day   

Sorry mate haha we rode back to buzzards but could'nt  see a transition similar to yours . Sunday would be a good shout I would be keen to arrange something else sometime. Short notice doesn't bother me as I'm only about an hour away.

Hope you enjoyed the puddles.....

Ahhhh.... poor kev.

Forgot to post a link to my rucksack, Alpkit Gourdon, perfect for days like these and will even throw half eaten bananas at your riding buddies following you.

www.alpkit.com/products/gourdon-20

It was great to get out only third time this year, even if it did become a tad wet. Good to meet Danny too showed us old timers (me and Neil) how to do it even when it was really wet, don't know how you could see anything, my glasses were covered in mud and rain. Nice to get out with you again Andy too, hope you will be able to get out a bit more now. Sorry to of missed you Kev next time.

Those that were out on the ride at Glentress know that I get really sore knuckles after doing a bit of riding. They are very sore today as well. It's in every knuckle down each finger, thumbs are ok though. It almost feels like the knuckles are swollen today so bending them is causing pressure. 

My question to the forum is, has anyone ever experienced this or know of anyone that has? And how did you / they try to sort it?

at the moment all I can think of is using some fat grips on the bars..