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24th August 2007
Mt. Biking: Coed y Brenin Wind Direction: Wind Stength: Surf / Sea State: Air Temperature: Sea Temperature: Weather: Sunny :) Max Speed: Distance Covered: 20km ish (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise)
Drove up to the campsite after doing the Climachx trail to meet up with
some of the other people from the mountain biking club. After pitching the
tent (nice and quick with a pop up tent) we got the bikes out and rode the
short distance down to the Coed y Brenin visitor centre.
We decided to be whimps and just do the shortest trail the Temtiwr' (I'd
already ridden today that was my excuse not sure about the others)
I'd never ridden at Coed before so I wasn't sure what to expect I'd heard
it was quite rocky and technical.
It sure was that! took a while to get myself dialed in but once I got used
to the rock gardens and steps it was great fun! Some of the bits looked
quite scary at first look.
We done the first lap in just under 50 mins not really riding that fast but
as we were all a similar speed we didn't have any waiting around.
A few more people from the club had arrived so we had another lap of the
Temtiwr trail, we talked them out of doing the MBR trail as a couple of
them had never ridden anywhere other than Woburn rocks were going to be
something new to them.
Im not sure of the time it took todo the second lap but it was a bit of a
baptisim by fire for a few people but after a bit of coaching they started
to get to grips with the rocks (Im just glad it wasn't wet!) then we all
would of been in trouble!
After a good introduction to Coed y Brenin it was the ride back (uphill)
to the campsite, shower, change of clothes and then to the pub!
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