Naming is Hard

I’m just back from mountain biking round the forest at Stanmer Park with Steve, Jim and Paul from work, as well as some of Steve’s friends and one of Paul’s friends. We did about an hour-and-a-half, starting at Falmer, riding down through the University, behind my old halls (York House), round the top of Stanmer Park through the forest up to Ditchling Road and finally slalom-style downhill to the entrance of Stanmer Park and back through the uni to Falmer. There was just time for a pit stop at the local pub before it got dark and we had to clean off our bikes. Unfortunately, I was the only one to take a slide through the mud, but I was also the only one to manage to do a 360° spin, albeit unintentionally!

The hills were hard work and I got absolutely caked in mud, but it was definitely worth it. I’m definitely going to go again once I’ve got myself a bike (and a helmet!) and I really recommend it. There’s some brilliant tracks and some hair-raising slalom runs! I think I might have caught the bug…