Urban Terror!

Most people think that cycling in parks is the only way to do it - the scenery; the quiet and the occasional manic depressive squirrel that tries to commit hari kiri under your bike tyres. Yeah its nice to see but it doesn't motivate you to push yourself to extremes like a 12 ton bus moving at 30 miles an hour trying to make pavement pizza out of you.

So instead of the usual Pollok Park then Bellahouston Park cycle round a hill and avoid some dogs we decided to cycle to the west end of town and back. That meant using the main road through glasgow, and on thursday night thats like walking into a room of hairy bikers and asking which Jessie parked their bike in the way of your car.

On the way home we chose to take the direct route home, through the busy shopping precinct on late night shopping - don't ask why you wont like it...no really you won't. There's lots of pretty girls out there shopping on a sunny day and its a welcome distraction from the burning in our legs. There are some really fun "technical" sections that you have to be extremely careful when cycling on. Like "try to get past Ann Summers without crashing into someone whilst still looking in the window", and then theres the always fun "Lets see how many people you can make scream when you appear at the top of the stairs at 15 mph".

All in all - probably the most fun I've had training in the past few weeks.