March 25 .......... It's officially British Summertime and what a way to start it ...

A few of us decided on an pre-Alps training loop (the word training to be used very loosely!)

Basically we wanted to get a decent ride in with a bit of droppy/jumpy sessioning stuff thrown in for good measure .....

The weather was perfect, it hadn't rained for a while and the trails were mostly dry (there were still some bl**dy big puddles around though!) Started off with a climb to the first singletrack run through the woods. A few nice drops were included and as I swooped through the trees thinking how great life was ....... someone put a tree stump in the way and i did a pretty good impression of superman! After what seemed a good half hour in flight, I gracefully touched down on the trail using my new arm pads as skis. Feeling quite impressed with myself having had my biggest off for a very long time, I got up to see what caused my dismount and noticed my leg had made contact with the stem ..... but I would live ... so I carried on smiling..

The next 2 hours were spent looping around and sessioning things ..... my favourite being the drop/jump from 2 weeks ago that I looked at for over half an hour! This time, a couple of run ups .... then go for it ..... ooh it felt good ..... so I did it 3 more times ;-)

A bit more looping and jump/droppy stuff and it was way over time to go home ....

A fine start to British Summer time .................