Sep
1
It’s been a whole five weeks since I last rode my Stiggy Honda and I really can’t wait to get back on the bike. That’s the thing with racing, you’re always waiting for the next race. Whether it’s five days or five weeks away, all you think about is what you can do to fill your time before you get back to racing again.
Having said that, I have done a really good job with filling my time. I’ve popped along to support some friends in BSB which was fun to catch up with everyone and watch some good racing of course.
Steve Brogan, Oli and myself went off to Redtread Enduro School in Spain for a few days. We decided to do a bit of a road trip and take our mate’s van but it’s really quite a long way, 1300 miles from Calais. Even longer when the van you borrow brakes down in the middle of nowhere in a rain storm at 11 o’clock at night and none of you really speak Spanish! After an uncomfortable night, the three of us in the cab, we got towed to Madrid to get fixed and were on our way again.
It was an awesome trip though; Steve and I spent the time riding around the Spanish mountains while Oli went diving every day. The last days we went to a water park and just chilled which was a much needed break for all of us.
Me and my Dad have also been taking our pilots’ licence; my Dad passed his a couple of months ago so while I’ve had some time off I have been getting some serious hours in. I now only have to do a few more hours solo before I can take passengers. We have bought between us a Eurostar light aircraft, it’s a little two seater thing but it’s amazing and looks like a little Spitfire. I’ll put some pictures on the site.
We are a bit governed by the weather in the UK but we have been pretty lucky on the break, and after Germany hopefully we will continue to get some good flying weather.
I’ve done the usual stuff too like training every morning with Kirk, Oli is running a half marathon in October in London to raise money for an Elephant charity so I have been helping her train and running quite a lot.
Trailing as been a regular occurrence too although we didn’t really have any time to enter any comps. All in all it’s been a pretty good break, but a very quick one too. Well they do say time flies when you’re having fun.
Speak soon
Leon
