A good weekend

I feel like I am getting back into it now. The weather is nice, I have the desire to get race fit again, and there are new toys to play with.

Friday night was squash night against my dad. He is still better than me and I didn’t win any of the games but now that I’m free of injury I was able to put in a more competitive performance and we got some good rallies going which was good for the cardio.

Saturday the wife and I went mountain biking in Wales. We went riding last year and had a great time and decided to go further and higher this time out. It was a long day in the saddle, about 4 hours of hard riding. If it wasn’t the long thigh burning climb upwards, it was a grit your teeth hang on for dear life, hurtle down hill. Either way it was tough on the muscles.

While we were out riding I got a phone call from West Midlands Canoe Centre about my Pyranha Speeder. It turns out it hasn’t been built. There aren’t enough orders for this thing for it to be worthwhile for Pyranha to tool up the machines. Gutted… But not all bad news, Pyranha have agreed to give me their demo boat until they get around to making mine. I get to pick it up this weekend and with a bank holiday Monday tacked on I think I am going to be spending a day on the water.