Leaside, my kayak club also does mountain biking. Six of us are doing our Mountain Bike Instructors Award Scheme Level 1 this weekend. Ian. our course tutor, is also being assessed so that Leaside can offer these courses in future.
The club is on the Lea, in Clapton (part of Hackney), facing the Walthamstow Marshes, with Leyton Marshes and then Hackney Marshes further south.
Rising behind the club is Springfield Park on the nearest hill to me. I am going to have to go there on my Saturday morning ride to practise getting up those steep paths!
Ian took us on a ride as if we were part of a group he was leading, but also explaining what he was doing. Interesting off muddy road bits - alongside paths I have often ridden along.
Not that I am likely to do that with my bike in wet weather - I don't clean my bike (though cleaning the club bike I had been out on today was part of the course!) so I don't like getting it muddy!
There were also lots of short sections of up or down cycling. Some muddy.
I never thought that "my" part of the Lea was surrounded by such good off-road cycling.
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