This Saturday we headed out into the hills of the wolds again to get some hill practice in; taking in Walkington, North Newbald before heading North towards Kiplingcotes and Etton on the return to Beverley.
There seemed to be several groups of more serious riders out there, no doubt we looked quite silly attempting to lug our heavy mountain bikes up over the wolds; they come in useful though when you get on some of the rough stuff and we will be needing the more hardy tyres in July as the Transpennine covers a variety of surfaces.
Can't help but be envious though of the road tyres and virtually weightless frames as we chunder around the countryside, occasionally turning to thunder on the downhills when we got a chance to reserve energy.
Climbing from Newbald back up towards the A1079 was interesting especially on the section of country track, this almost got the better of us but we just kept on chpiping away at that particularly difficult section of the 164 cycle route.
The weather was challenging with a quite a stiff gusty wind building over the afternoon, especially on the last few climbs as we headed back into it.
Cherry Burton proved a nice rest point to restore some energy, a pint of Jester Jacks was the tipple of choice at the Bay Horse; it didn't seem to clear but tasted good all the same.
I hope that the wind is less of a hindrance next weekend as we attempt to up the mileage a bit.
Adam
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