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The "Collarbone Club" Rehab Ride #1. My mate Simon broke his CB one week after me. He's had his plated, mine is still a natural bump (or possibly a second nose based on the size of it!). Neither have a fully healed bone post last x-rays so the whole hill is a no-crash zone!
Gradually getting back into riding proper trails tho. Quite slowly and very cautiously but 100% better than turbo and about 75% than road riding! We went back to the scene of Simon's crash. It's a little tabletop (which subsequently appears to have been squashed).H still has no idea what happened other than taking off with the bike and landing without it!
Birthday ride for me this weekend. At least I'll be able to ride a few of my favourite trails as shoulder feels fine. Just don't want to crash on it. Also first post night ride pint for 12 weeks! I appear to have missed the summer tho as it was getting quite dark! 
Be careful, a mate of mine went back to early and crashed again on the same shoulder (probably because he didn't have full control). He's never been able to mtb again 😩
I got out for a couple of hours this morning. It still counts as midweek because I did some work this afternoon. No stunning views, I'm afraid. Just some woods, a trail and a bike.
Shoulder feels pretty strong, it's been nearly 3 months. Mentally tho, feels like I'm learning to ride again!
You'll have lost all the local muscle control and proprioception from ripped nerves. Build up slowly with positional exercises.
I started physio three weeks post accident. At around 8 weeks moved from stabilising to strengthening. But yeah I'm not going from nothing to riding full on trails. Next ride I plan to ride just a few short easy trails with the rest of the ride being mostly fire-road.
Gravel lap after work on Thursday.
Everything baked dry and reservoir very low.
Saw a gang of surrons getting chased by the police.
Nice 17 mile loop around the local forest after work las night.
Lots of fallen trees after the recent storm.
Chilled ride round whitelee this morning
South Shropshire definitely needs some rain, I’ve never ridden anything as dusty as some of the trails today. Pretty exciting though, especially when doing gap jumps with a strong whiff of hospital about the short, dusty and zero traction landing that heads into a steep sandy corner 🤣 😆 super fun, I think I did a fair few miles sideways today! Sad lack of pictures, all the best bits weren’t places to pause.
Some lovely trails near Morgins today, and on into the Portes du Soleil. Lots of simply wonderful singletrack.
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For the first time in what seems like an age I didn't feel the need to put sunscreen on!
Lost the view as we approached the summit of our local hill last night. 5mins before this we still had a lovely clear view!
Then, quite a pleasant easy bimble around the local area on the dropbar this morning before breakfast:
Burnt out vehicles and steep and loose hills on tonight’s ride.
Marsden lane's been resurfaced, no excuses for not getting up it now!
Baitings res will be reforested at this rate...
up above Oxenhope today. Can see huge distances and found another of the Stanza Stones
Another Rehab Ride. A few more trails ticked off but still nothing too tech or too steep. Had my old mate H out tonight as well so that definitely was worth a lovely post ride pint!
I'd never ridden Helvellyn and it was one of my targets for this year. On Tuesday I went up with my eldest (having been planned for a while) with the intention of getting some views and enjoying the return leg. The plan was to go up Keppel, up Long Man to the summit, then back down Sticks. The clouds were down to just over 800 metres and it was blowing quite a gale at the top, so it was really quite cold. In the end I didn't see the point in going much further than the bottom of Long Man in those conditions. He compared the visibility in the clouds to Minecraft where the world hadn't loaded, which I thought was quite amusing.
He loved the descent though!
I went back today (he was too tired after a day riding in the woods yesterday with his mates).
We're currently holidaying in south Devon. Strava heatmaps shows zero MTB activity, and the reality on the ground agrees really. As you'd expect, lots of narrow lanes with high banks and hedges, steep b***ard climbs, but interspersed with a few lovely sections of green lanes, unmetalled roads & bridleways. The HT with fast XC/gravelly tyres has been pretty much the perfect bike.
Riding like absolute crap at the moment... still, it was nice to get out. 👍
Going through another drawn out COVID recovery period. Low energy but motivated by new bike parts.
Managed to get out before work a couple of times this week.
Definitely made some difficult days at work less difficult
Aberfoyle gravel running nicely this morning
The heather is looking magnificent at the moment
Out in the Peak for a long weekend before we go on our next European trip.
Trails are as dry as I've ever seen them. Running fast and fun chasing each other.
Managed an over the bars on the Beast so a bit battered and bruised. Looped back later in the ride and nailed it.
Not many out and about today
Monmouthshire looking more like Tuscany in the background it is so dry.... Floh enjoyed the loop around the Blorenge though.
It felt very autumnal on this morning's pre-work ride; heather and gorse in full flower, but the berries are mostly done and there was that certain quality to the light, a harbinger of cool days and nights drawing in. My favourite season incoming.
Testing my new ejector seat at BPW:
It works well, save that somehow I lost a shoe despite being clipped-in. Still looking for the root cause. 🤔
Regular Tuesday ride with a new mate. He was on an eeb and is 10 years younger than me so it was good that he took it easy on me 😂
Cruised 
through some forest that was recently burnt off for fire hazard reduction and regeneration purposes.
First ride of autumn, bridleway bashing in perfect conditions.
Kids went back to school today, so we're back to biking mid week.
On holiday on the isle of gigha this week, managed a bimble round the island,
Superb place to go, turquoise seas and white sands and only 1 road
Couple of gravel rides this week ...
Quickie on Monday evening just before sundown:
Then a 50km ride this morning before the forecast rain (not appeared yet)
Not posted any pics for weeks now as I've been going through a can't be arsed to take and post any phase.
Normal conditions have returned to the local and summer is definitely over.
Oh well carry on as usual. 
I don't get out much. This direction was easy, going the other direction much more difficult but got it eventually.
This picture makes it look dry yesterday, it wasn’t, it was just very windy and dries well on the ridge! Mudguards back on for the first time in ages and we had a hilarious, slippy, slidy ride, it was like riding new trails. With no brakes 🤣 I’ve added a cheeky pic from last weeks Degla ride!
