Not today but yesterday.
Did the big road trial in Shropshire and tonight as my muscles come to terms with teh shock I look like I am hobbling like an old man.
On the plus side the sun was out all day and I managed to finish and clean a few sections ( not many
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On the minus side it had been raining in that area for about 2 weeks without stop so the clay ground was more slippy than ice and the rivers were high....so 80% of the sections were down a steep clay slope into a river, over some big rocks and back up the slope..... And I hate big rock steps.
So section 1, I walked the section in the river and 3 steps in and there is a feck off big hole and I am stod up to my baldrocks in cold water.....only one leg mind so it could be worse.
I got through the section for what I thought was a messy 3 after getting stuck on a rock step only to be told it was a 5 as they were scoring it based on the "no stop" rules and the bike had come to a stop
Bike stalled in next section as there must have been water in the carb and it wouldn't idle...so another 5.
Next section I managed to fill my other boot full of water and I might have got a 3 then a few more 5s.
The group of sections after that were 10 times worse and even getting to the section was tough mixed with dangerous. So after a stop 5 and a 3 I am sliding down a 30foot clay slope to the river trying to stop my bike, so I jump off it and although I can't stand on the slick clay slope I use the handkebars as an anchor and drag the bike on its side down to the bank of the stream. I jump into the stream and pull my bike off the bank towards me, but the bottom of the stream is mud and when I try to step back my feet won't move so the bike keeps coming and I fall over into the river ..... My mate can't help as he is pissing himself laughing and is recording it on his helmet cam, so I sit in the river till another competitor picks the bike off me. I will post the link to the vid when he sends it
But on the plus side I was keeping te airbox out of the river .
The next section had a bigger rock step, and I hit it and bounced back down throwing the bike away from me in the hope it would stay ontop of the rock so I didn't have to lift it back up there to get out of the river. It didn't stay up and when it fell it broke part of the throttle housing on the grip and as I draged it up the rock I noticed I also had a flat front tyre.
At that point I had done 14 sections out of 40, I was soaked, and my bike was damaged and I wanted to just go home, but I wasn't going to let my mate down so I carried on.
Riding on the road with a flat front was ok-ish as long as I kept my weight well back and didn't shut the throttle
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Fortunately the sections didn't get worse and some were even cleanable and I rode better and started to enjoy myself.
And to make it worse I put it in the shed wet and dirty and left it like that as I had work to finish before Monday, and still haven't cleaned it tonight as I can't move my arms.
Here is the poor old girl
for the aches and pains. 
