Sherwood Forest exists today as a national nature reserve, a tiny part of what once existed. It is still large enough to get lost in for twenty minutes or more and you can have a long pleasant ride through it. Better still is Sherwood Pines to the south, equally large and encompassing more than twenty kilometers of rolling mountain bike single track between its closely spaced trees. I am spending a weekend here to check out potential mountain bike trails within and around the separate Sherwoods for NashBash 2010, a weekend enduro event that will encompass riding our bikes, shooting some arrows, dancing to bands and drinking real ale.
Saturday sees me and Blow enjoying a cold ride, swooping along narrow winding foot wide trails to dodge beneath branches, swerve around tree after tree, being whipped and ripped at by the JC!
Blow, ex-Army and the principal organiser, is the highly focused chair of our committee. My role is to recce the trails, lay them out and marshal them with a small troop of volunteers. We meet tonight to discuss what is planned, agree our different roles, put words to our outside-of-the-box thoughts and then to bond over some beers before being joined by late arriving party goers!
Please regard this as training for 'Father Christmas cycles Lon Las Cymru' and I will pick up another sponsor or two whilst here - but in truth its all about enjoying the company of friends on or out of the saddle, isn't it?
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Yo! It was a good cycle in Sherwood, but the only problem being, it's left me with this infection of my balls... hi price to pay, but hey, the Bash is worth it...
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