After spending the last 3 days in Uppsala/Sthlm where it was rainy and 2C, it was a pleasure to return to bästkusten this morning to see the perfect spring day. 15C! So sitting in the conference I thought, nej, tonight I have to train. No more buffet meals for me. There are 2 more days of conference so I can sneak away.

So I scrambled together all of my MTB stuff and headed off to the MCK clubhouse in Lindome figuring that 'teknikträning' would be a good day to start. It was great to see everyone again but suddenly I remembered the difference now. Yes, the SPD pedals are on so this would be my first forest ride. Naturally, the warm-up was on our teknikbana which is where I took several rather spectacular wipeouts last year. Great. The very first trail felt very strange so naturally I fell over with my left foot still attached. Beautiful. Now I am a real cyclist. =) Of course I managed to slide my finger along a tree and slice it open nice so I had to take a break and stop the bleeding. Then I was back and just rode around a few more times and got the hang of it. Downhill feels completely different and you can control the direction much better. Of course that is probably also because I moved my seat forward.

The others were, of course, trying to climb over giant rocks, wood skids and whatever else was impossible so I just continued to ride around getting use to things. I threw in a couple of hill intervals also just for fun.

My leg feels just fine so I see no excuses now. Maybe I will do all of Billingeracet again afterall.