Sweet ride in Chicksands today. Didn't know until yesterday I had the afternoon free and only had two hours of riding time so headed north up the A1.
Took Stumpy and started with a whizz around the xc to warm up. Great route but I did wonder half way through if it was shut and I had missed the signs as loads of tree felling going on and had to improvise on the route as it kept dissapearing
Then headed over to the Northshore area and tried to get my confidence back up on this since having a dismal day here with my Big Hit finding her too heavy (or me too weak
to get her up the ramps).
I practiced my balance for 20 minutes on the really low to the ground (half a foot) skinny (in my book) training plank. Managed to do it in the end both ways around 5 times each and moved on to the piece that threw me out on my Big Hit. It's an easy piece that leads up a ramp then has a little curvy bit over a pyramid thing that takes you round a berm where you can then leave or go up higher. I attempted this maybe 12 times and did it 6 times which was sweet. I found I always need to put my foot down at the top of the ramp which I want to avoid but hey next time but more I had killed the demon I had created here previous.
Then on to the dual slalom (I promised myself jut one for the road). 30 minutes later as the moon peeked it's head out I realised they drug you on this thing and once on you can not get off. So had one final go down a small little route with a couple of fun kickers (one a decent size) and headed to the car for a victory KFC dinner and back.
