Pruners is a North West of England ‘Linked In’ networking group with a difference. Rather than golf, breakfast clubs or twilight seminars, Pruners go mountain biking!
Partner at Pozzoni, Nigel, asked me for some advice on where to go next so I persuaded them to come down to Cannock Chase. After the usual faff, eventually 14 property industry executives joined me and a couple of other locals for 3 hours of mud-fest, the recent rains on top of the snow and frosts of late December and January having left the Cannock Chase Mountain Bike Trails (Follow the Dog and Monkey Trail) in a dreadful state.
The group was fairly well matched, but the regroup stops allowed for those bits of essential networking, as did the long climbs and the couple of puncture repair breaks.
Finishing back at the Birches Valley Visitor Centre we had a group jet wash before some more essential networking time and the all important ceremonial exchange of business cards at a local pub, The Chase in Rugeley.
It seems more and more with the rise of the MAMIL and the popularity of mountain biking growing all the time, golf now has a rival for THE business recreational activity.