Lactic-Haze

I was invited by ChrisH to come ride the new Welvanpas Wine Farm mtb trails this Saturday. Invited Frank and Roger along and Saturday morning it was us, the MTB’s and some good trails. The farm has several routes to chose from, white (17km), blue (10km) and yellow (18km). We decided to do the white route first, then the yellow route.

The white route had a bit of climbing, and a lot of singletrack. I mean, it had a LOT of singletrack. It was awesome! Some of the more technical areas most of us took fairly calm, seeing as we have big events coming up in the near future and a broken bone takes 10 weeks to heal. The last thing I need now is a broken collarbone.

After the white route we refilled bottles, had a cold drink at the little shop and then set off for the yellow route. Once we actually found the route it was cool (we got a little lost). Temperatures were starting to rise a bit (36 – 38′c), but we stopped at a stream and cooled ourselves before setting off again. Lots of climbing on the route before we started some of the best singletrack I’ve ridden in a long while. Eventually got back to the start area with 3hrs of riding and over 1000m of climbing under the belt!