A day of rest

It was a tough ride down from Spain when I first arrived in the high winds.  Now that combined with the tough training day yesterday where I dropped the bike a few times resulted in lots of aches and pains this morning.   So I went to see the physiotherapist.   I had pains in my legs and pains in my neck and I was just tired.   Anyway, apparently all my muscles were tight and I needed a lot of work.   He first hooked me up to a magic machine.  This had pads stuck to my back and when he turned it on it was like someone massaging my back.   Apparently the machine cost Euro 18,000……..   After an hour of that and some specific massage treatment I felt a lot better.    But he recommended I take today off and I would feel like new tomorrow.   So thats what I am doing.

But I did decide to take a walk around one of the tracks today, the Level 1 track that I did yesterday on my bike.

I was going to take a hero shot of where I fell off in the mud, but by the time I got there to take the photo it had dried out in the sun.  My problem was I took the mud on the left and fell over where the tree is.  If I had gone through the middle, or even to the right I would have been OK.

This is a shot looking up the steep hill on the Level 1 track.

This is a shot from the top looking back toawrds the accomadation.

And as you get to the edge this is what it looks like.  On my big 200kg bike it is a case of putting it in 2nd and just let the engine take it down.   If you touch the breaks then the wheels just lock up (I had the ABS fuse pulled out).   It took me a few mins to summon the courage to make the decent on the bike, but now I have done it once I know how easy it is.