A Mint Sauce moment

(See Jo Burt's full strip on http://homepage.mac.com/pfellows1/thisiswhy/Images/eternalreek/eternalpage13-mud-unpub.jpg or the article this appeared in "The Eternal Reek of Damp Wool" at http://homepage.mac.com/pfellows1/thisiswhy/articles.html)

Another weather record broken this summer: Saturday's weather forecast was the most welcome forecast since 1976!! How did you spend your summer? For me the plan was bike ride up Sarn Helen Saturday and mow the lawn on Sunday (for the 2nd time this year!!) However, I had a Mint Sauce moment. The crank felt stiff so I started dismantling it. Inside was a scene from Halloween 3!! So I mowed the lawn instead, then a bit later with some help from J, I got new bearings pressed in. Sorted!

J and I then decided to ride one of the trail centres. We picked Brechfa's Gorlech trail. Though it's graded difficult like the Afan Argoed and Glyncorrwg trails, the jumps and berms seemed on average to be more severe in Brechfa. I got very tired towards the end and came off twice. Combination of no exercise for 2 weeks and eating enough chicken and sticky toffee pudding to feed an American family last night!! That and the fact that it was a fight from the word go to keep up with J (which I didn't!!). Sarn Helen will wait for another day.