St David's Day Social on The Marin

[Tarbo]

On a wet & windy day, 11 of us set off from the car park for a nice social ride around The Marin.

With the rain staying off, the trails were running nice and dry giving good grip. And if I hadn't had put too much air in my new front tyre maybe my front wheel would have stayed on the good grippy trail instead of washing away under me Something to look into before the Scotland weekend in a couple of weeks !

At the halfway mark, the weather looked like taking a turn for the worse so Jess & Oggy said their goodbyes and headed off into the sunset, while the rest of us continued at our steady pace.

Later on we bumped into Neil who had gotten to the car park a bit late and had caught us up. And even further on, James also made a brief appearance before shooting off down the last descent to the car park.

All in all a really good social ride and good to catch up with those I hadn't seen for a while as well as meeting Linda for the first time.

Good to catch up with Oggy who has been spending too much time with the racing snakes and was looking slim and fast, as well as going down the minimalist route with his innertube tucked in his pocket to avoid the need for a rucksack

Some pictures I managed to take today, not too many as I was more interested in enjoying the ride

[Tony]

A great St Davids day.
A good ride with good company, and England lost.

[sharon]

Thanks to Chris for putting up the ride. Not had much motivation lately to get out but this was just what I needed. Great company and hopefully see you all again really soon.

[Oggy]

Nice to see some old faces today and even better to see mbnw still going strong, good work guys

[tinytim]

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[46neil]

It was good to see you guys :-) Hopefully catch up again soon.
Must make a conscious effort to do more mbnw rides.