Sometime at the beginning of June I passed my annual riding target of 2,500km. As June comes to an end I’m on track to be nearing 3,000km. Last year in the same time period I’d ridden 140km and to further emphasise the difference, earlier this month in a ride out to Delamere Forest for coffee and a bacon barm, I did close to that distance in a single ride. I am lighter, fitter, and enjoying riding again.
The best bit is that I keep finding new trails like the gravel track in the photo above. In my earliest days getting out exploring on the bike, riding new bits, having those revelatory moments – ‘ah, this comes out here’ and ‘so I can use this to link up this and that’ – were always the highlights.
Right now that sense of adventure biking, complete with top tube mounted frame bag comes in the form of a Scott Addict Gravel bike. What a machine. Looking forward to the next 100km+ adventure at the weekend.
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