David and Katherine Goodwin

On Sunday, I did my 5th Dyfi Enduro (at least, I think it's my 5th). As always, I had a great time, and pretty much knackered myself - which is to be expected. Oddly I reached the half way point and felt quite perky, so decided I'd better push myself harder in the second half. Thankfully I completed it, and now have one more mug to add to my collection :-)

There are photos up for it - see here. I found myself in two photos - the first doesn't look particularly good (here) and the second was on a downhill bit - so was a little blurred - here - so I'm not sure if I'll buy either.

Anyway, as before, it was a very well organised event with a much improved "camping ground" (although I didn't make use of it). The course itself seemed significantly different to previous years - which was nice - it's definately improved over the years anyway. As always there was the killer ascent at the start, with a rock band and cheer leaders near the top (Thank you!) followed by a number of excellent technical downhill parts which had me keeping my bike under control by the thinnest of margins and the traditional long forestry road uphill sections (where I tend to overtake people).

The weather mostly held off, and although there was some light rain, it never made me put my coat on - so clearly carrying it around was a waste of time in retrospect.

While I was getting very muddy and enjoying myself, Kat took Rowan to Corris craft centre and bought an assortment of toys for him; they both seemed very pleased for themselves anyway.

In the evening, we had a curry at the Agra (Aberystwyth) with Paul, Hannah and Jo - which was intended to restore my knackered body to it's normal shape. I'm not sure it did that however (this might be related to eating dodgy eggs the previous night). Eventually we made it back to my mothers along the A44 by 23:30. It was a long day - after starting at 5:30am, but well worth it.

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