Here’s mud in your Eye, Ears, Nose and Throat!

Another cyclone has hit the area and the rain started last night and hasn’t stopped since. So Andy and I load up the bikes and head for a mountain bike park near his home. It raining hard all the way to the park but once we mount up and head into the forest the rain seems to fall away. There are many bikers out today. Real hard core Kiwi’s! The course is a low rolling single track with man made obstacles such as ladders, teeter-totters and jumps. Lucky for me there are bypass runs for the less insane. Andy leads me through the forest he knows so well. Turns out that he broke his neck 6 years ago biking this very park (fell of a elevated path and spent 6 months in a upper body cast). The wet muddy track and the soft chill of the mist that filtered through the canopy of the forest all heighten the experience.