went for my first ride since camp. God, I am so wasted! I
don't know if it's the heat and not sleeping at night or
just recovery.
Des and went out to try and beat the heat. We start with
the 2 mile pedal up to the tower... oh, it just hurts!! And
it's hot! But I try and practice my front wheel hops over
or up onto some of the rocks in the trail. Nice little jump
over this one berm that then throws you into a back,
upwards U-turn.
Then going down, the first descent, an unfamiliar portion of
the trail, almost overgrown with vetch. I can see it's
contagious... maybe I could do a little jump here, maybe one
there...and then on to the rutted tire turn. I usually clean
this unpleasant, canted, rutted steep thing, but not without
real concentration. Today, it was just flow... not going to
let those stupid ruts get in my mind this time, no sireebob!
Then, onto the Piney Switch backs. Instead of the usual 1/3,
I get 2/3, but after multiple attempts on #3 I give up and
keep going. We hit the flow on John's trail, and it's a
blast taking all those little jumps. Nothing big mind you...
never mind what slacker will say, but just trying to
reinforce what I learned at camp so it will come naturally.
But both of us are wasted, tired. We hit the last stretch,
taking some rocky techinical lines that we haven't before.
At the bottom, we decide to take the easy way back, on the
paved bike trail, instead of climbing up and over again.
Back where the cars are parked at the golf course, back up
the hill for one more berm, and then a little teeeny launch
off the curb.
Can't wait to keep working on things.
Penny