We have been so busy lately with Break the Cycle stuff I have nearly forgotten about our blog. I have been off work now for just over a week and I am loving all my free time. Last week I was out on my bike every day, although I am totally covered in scratches and bruises. I was out with Face a few times around Beaver etc and also went up the Cavehill myself to try out a few of the trails i had walked when we filmed Rosco for the film. It was seriously slippy up there from all the rain, chickened out on a lot of the trails but rode a few of them was good fun but I was so scared being on my own. Totally lost it on the road on the way down from Belfast Castle, I braked too hard round a corner and I went flying across the ground on my belly, thought I had broken a rib. Had to cycle about another half hour then to get home, was glad to get off my bike then! Went round to Ormeau BMX track on Fri evening, have got this thing in my head that I want to get a BMX bike, but just trying to build up my strength on my hardtail first.
We caught up with Shaggy and Grace for our usual Friday night Indian and dvd. Went for the madras which finally was up to our hotness standards! Was really good. The dvd was pretty good too, cant remember the name of it, it was about Joy Division, maybe it was just called Joy Division? Who knows!
Saturday we were up at the crack of dawn to head down to the Mournes to film Ewan Dogherty. We headed up Donard, took us about half hour to reach the spot we were to start filming and on his first run he got a puncture and had to go all the way back down. That was just the start, there was 3 more punctures that day! We headed back to Ewans house after we finished and took a few shots there then headed to Helens Bay to take some cross country shots. The weather was pretty amazing all day, we had a quick look at the footage later that night, it looked pretty good! Sunday, another amazing sunny day, we headed back to Donard with Ewan to finish off his section (another puncture and broken rear mech!) then met up with Turkey at Tollymore to shoot him at one of the trails. He ended up with a puncture too but thankfully we had nearly finished his section so we just scraped the last bit of the trail!.
Yesterday evening Face and I headed up the coast. Was such an amazing night, the sunset was pretty cool. Face headed in for a surf at White Rocks and I headed out around Portrush on my bike. Went for a walk along the beach after I finished on my bike, felt so chilled out, wish I lived up there and could do that every night!