adventures recently

more pictures soon I promise!

Since I last blogged I've been biking quite a lot. Recently biked up Burma road and then down (falling off a lot) the black descent back to Aviemore. Chris and I did the Laggan route a while back - good route, really picturesque and a good descent. We had to battle against the wind quite a bit and had to ford a river - not sure if the brisge was ever there in the first place! I joined an intermediate biking course George Mac was running which was really helpful - lots to practice! unsuprisingly I find shin guards really help. The Lodge has some good man made mtb trails and skills sections on site and Wolf Trax also has some good bits in the play park. At home in the Peak I did the Cut Gate route with Pete. I would say this is the best route I've done in the Peak - great technical uphill as well as down hill.

In September I took part in the Scottish Open Canoe Symposium. I did an awesome tandem tandem wokshop with Tom Sibbald and Anna (Graham?) which despite being on a section of the Spey I have paddled a lot, was really helpful

I have been doing quite a lot of coaching in Kayak and Open Boat whilst working towards my L2. Giles TRussel has been helping me with lesson plans and I've also had a lot of help from Pete Gwatkin who kindly came in on his day off to observe my sessions, what a legend!