Training Log Archive: oscarS

legs a bit tired after 6,500m climb in the last week so a few rest days needed

Dofe residential day 5
A hill day through the Chalamain gap and down the Lairig Ghru
Was an awesome descent just a shame about the weather because the views would have been good. Took today really easy just stopping to talk a lot. Still had loads pf time so spun over to Badaguish to ride the new trail which was class. Annoyingly on the last 10m of the last trail of the week i went over the bars and crashed for the first time this week. Whacked my calf and i think i may have pulled a muscle idk

Dofe residential day 4
Slept through my first alarm and woke up 8 minutes before the bus was going to leave. Bit of a mad rush to get everything ready but managed and thankfully we were going to laggan so I could sleep on the journey
Really good day going back to laggan especially in the dry which was fun. Happy to do every feature on the black even if it required a walk down first to talk about lines. Went over to the brown side for a really steep trail, happy to have ridden the rooty shoot and some tight corners

High burnside and carrbride
Spin down the old logging way to avie then up to high burnside, what a place. Started off sessioning some new corners on bracken bashing which were class then over to eds to ride the famous snake. It was even better than it looked in videos. Bit of a slog to the top of the forest but it was worth it. Spent quite a bit of time at the top of lefticle working on pushing the bike over roots especially on the steeper stuff. Then rode on down only stopping a bit at the slab to talk lines. Right over to carrbridge after to ride the new trail which was decent apart from punching a tree near the end. Lefticle is probably the best trail i've ridden or definitely close to it

Spent the morning around the lodge working on techniques n stuff
Manuals, techy climbs, compressing drops and probably something else

Badaguish and the Lairig Ghru
Always wanted to ride the trails at badaguish and it was even better to have a local trail guide. Really fun trails there and spent a bit of time sessions a tricky rock garden on first descent then went on to work on pumping down canadian descent. Bit of a slog over and up the lairig ghru but worth it for the descent so fun and fast. Some quality trails

First day of my dofe residential
Went to laggan and got rained on really heavily the whole time. Thankfully the rock there is really grippy and didn't really affect anything. Spent a bit of time sessioning a tricky rock corner then rode some great trails