All work and no play over the winter has forced Jason to take desperate and deliberate measures to actually meet up and ride with friends in the real world.
I didn’t have enough time off work over Christmas. That’s entirely my fault – I used up all my holidays earlier in the year, so once everyone was engrossed in either riding their bikes or revelling (or both) at the end of December I was hard at work instead.
The reason it felt like I didn’t get enough time off at Christmas was because all my mates were seemingly having a bloody brilliant time on their bikes, possibly even more than usual, and sending me loads of messages along the lines of ‘Coming out for a ride?’. Bloody internet.