This Sunday morning I got up at 6.30am to go for a ride in the monsoon-rain on my bike. It was soooo nice to be outside in the rain-fresh-air climbing up a bally big hill. I went with my boss and a friend of his who i was told wasn't particularly fit. However this bloke appeared all dressed up as if he was going to do the Tour de France in all sorts of professional lycra and colour coordinated hat and goggles... this gave me a minor panic as I am not Tour de France standard... in fact i am not particularly fast at all... especially going up hills... and definitely when going up hills off road. I think i need to develop stronger legs so i can get over all the bumps on the steep bits...
Fortunately we stuck to the road most of the time because the rain made the tracks like mud bath slides! We did one very long long climb which was OK, and although i was a fair way behind the men i didn't collapse or have to get a taxi home or anything drastic... i did get covered in oil and mud... but that goes without saying...
The way back was downhill and this is when the man dressed for Tour de France did his clothes justice and canned down the hill as if there was 100% visibility, no hair pin bends, 0 possibility of oncoming buses crashing into you, and a smooth dry road... I was someway behind!
Bellow are some photos of Chobar Gorge. In ancient ancient history the KTM valley was a lake. Legend has it that a Buddhist deity took a (presumably huge) sword and cut the valley edge at Chobar to release the waters... and the result was a fertile valley that today is Kathmandu!
Fortunately we stuck to the road most of the time because the rain made the tracks like mud bath slides! We did one very long long climb which was OK, and although i was a fair way behind the men i didn't collapse or have to get a taxi home or anything drastic... i did get covered in oil and mud... but that goes without saying...
The way back was downhill and this is when the man dressed for Tour de France did his clothes justice and canned down the hill as if there was 100% visibility, no hair pin bends, 0 possibility of oncoming buses crashing into you, and a smooth dry road... I was someway behind!
Bellow are some photos of Chobar Gorge. In ancient ancient history the KTM valley was a lake. Legend has it that a Buddhist deity took a (presumably huge) sword and cut the valley edge at Chobar to release the waters... and the result was a fertile valley that today is Kathmandu!
The bridge at Chobar gorge. Made in Aberdeen (Scotland) in 1903!
Jai Binayak Temple - important temple to Ganesh
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