‘You just need to commit.’ I know Binnsy’s right but there are far better riders than I going face first into the mud. ‘Come on, give it a go at least’ I tell myself. I commit fully. I crash faster. The bike remains prone in the mud a few feet behind me. Stomping back to retrieve it I remember ex-Army man Chris Borrowdale saying ‘the Somme didn’t have ruts this deep’ just minutes earlier, and…
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