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Although I am exactly the right age, because I would only listen to heavy metal during the 80′s and 90′s, I have never been to a rave. Since I started to appreciate electronic music in the last decade, of course I’ve gone to promoted events with DJs (the rave tent at the Bulldog Bash is excellent by the way), but I didn’t mix in the right circles to go to a proper word-of-mouth rave in a field on a farm in the middle of nowhere. Until this weekend that is! The music was LOUD, mixed live in 3 separate tents… and played continuously for almost 18 hours starting from 7pm on Saturday. About half way through, the organisers set fire to the outline of a maze in the pitch black, which was absolutely spectacular. Octavia made a video of the huge line of people (ourselves included) walking through it, which you can see in its entirety at my new gallery page.

During the afternoon before the party, we thought it might be fun to try a spot of mountain boarding. Or rather, my buddy Stoney mountain-boarded his way down some bumpy, twisty tracks, and I followed behind variously on my backside, shoulder or head :-)

Yesterday was spent catching up on the sleep I missed, and nursing my aching muscles. I’m still not sure whether that’s down to colliding with a mountain too many times on Saturday afternoon, or too many exuberant dance steps all through the night. Either way, training tonight is going to hurt!