A friend of mine talked me into tagging along to Kinnekulle to go Mountain biking. But it all started to go terribly terribly wrong as soon as we picked up the girl going with us my worst fears were made true: she was a professional elite mountain bike rider. Given the fact that I am not even close to being an athlete this sort of scares me, I don't like to be a "burden" to other people so going on a MTB trip with people that rides about twice as fast as me is nothing I relish.

But when we started to ride on Saturday it was not so bad actually, I managed to keep a pretty good pace and when we got to the first resting point I was "in the middle" and not half an hour behind as I had feared.
And when we started out from resting I even managed to tag along the leading group for a few kilometers but quickly my muscles started to show sign of being dangerously over exerted. When we had about 15kilometers left I was all out, I was biking on will power alone. At 10 km left I was feeling the inset of cramps and during the last 5 km my muscles was cramping pretty much all the time.
Fortuntelty it was mainly downhill the last 15kms so I did manage it and I managed to finnished the 47km long trail without ending up last :)
When finnished I checked the stats on my FRWD and noticed the climb was over 600 meters that *is* a lot of height to cover. All in all the trail took just over 4 hours with around 3-3.30 or so ride time.

On Sunday we decided to do a shorter trek up to the summit and back, this mainly as the single track down from the summit was the best part of the trail. This time about half-way up my muscles was starting to have opinions on mountain biking but I managed to finish the 450meter climb without any major problems. We also discovered an abandoned ropes course on th way up that we explored.

All in all the trip was a lot of fun and I enjoyed myself immensely. It was also rather a lot cheaper then I had anticipated. 

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Did some"sörmlandsled" (6:1,6 and 5) and yes, 5 still sucks, has to be the worst ever. And also some photos of the new SCOTT frame whee!!! well... not that good had to spend hours fixing things after cykloteket had fucked it up...

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A bit mountain biking (thought not much mountains) but the purpose was not terrain but to get a fairly long distance (around 46km)...
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Went for a ride... and what a glorious ride it was.. the snow was just perfect... and the temperature warm... hope this keeps till the next weekend...

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Getting damn cold outside...

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Some day I'm going to stop doing them mountain bike photos, but the idea is that when I get some time I will add ability to upload route data and such and then the photos will come in handy :)

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