Season 2014

[Charliecat5]

To continue the tails of the mountain biking cat...

I have hardly used my bike in recent months... but this weekend's run got me thinking about running in the fast approaching dark evenings. I really don't want to run along the streets and pavements but if I stick off road I will need a decent light. Fortunately I have one of these; it usually sits on my handle bars and is as bright as a car headlight. I am not sure that a light that is good enough to pick out downhill tracks at 30 miles per hour is suitable for running at a much more sedate pace.

All of this led to another thought... perhaps the winter evenings are the time to get back on my bike. There is nothing better than thrashing through wind and rain, plummeting down steep hills at breakneck speed in the pitch dark.

The weird thing is, that I am rarely alone out there in those conditions. Cows and sheep aside (which BTW, are usually to be found on blind corners in my experience) there is often another crazy biker out doing a similar thing.