The 4th Annual Ride and Feed, hosted by none other than Tom, Marie, and
Miles Blackwood, happened yesterday. The amounts of unicycles were in
the low-to-mid-millions, and the riders? Roughly eleven people on the
trails, and a few non-riders. Tom Jackson, Greg Harper, John Childs,
Tyler Cox, Tom Blackwood, Doc George, and Miles Blackwood, Logan, and
Irene Genelin were the unicyclists, Alex, Jenn, and Adrian were the
bicyclists, and Mr. & Mrs. Genelin, Marie Blackwood, Karen Harper,
Sorija, Silas, and some other parents didn't attend the rides.
We all started out at the Blackwood household. We laid our unis in the
front yard, and then proceeded into the food production facility.
Scones, jam, cream cheese, and a whole bunch of other delicious food
awaited, not to mention the great juice and coffee. We ate and drank
up, just before heading out to the first ride of the day.
The first ride circled a lake, and lead us to a perfect technical muni
playground! There were berms, drops, roots, stumps, hills, spills, and
some kids on BMX bikes filming us with their camera phone. Us kids
totally had them convinced, before he arrived, that Harper was a raging
maniac that was completely insane. When he arrived, all the kids were
like, "Is that him? For real? Duuuude!" Anyway, we played around
there for quite awhile, tackling a pretty steep, yet doable, berm. On
that berm, was one of the worst accidents of the day - Irene bailed and
not only knocked the wind out of herself but also bruised her leg. Tom
and Irene decided to head home, but the rest rode on.
We came to a dock on the lake, that had a box-like upraised platform in
the middle, supposedly for sitting on, but were we just going to sit?
No way...we dropped, hopped, grabbed, and gapped! We efficiently
pedal-marked the wood, but hey, we didn't live there! 😉 After almost
pushing Adrian off the rail into the water, testing the strength of my
Nalgene bottle, and watching Harper almost kill himself on the railing,
we headed home.
There, we had meat loaf burgers, hotdogs, chicken, salmon, and various
munchies (from the Blackwoods), Greek orzo salad (from the Harpers),
habanero sauce and hot pickles (from JC), timarisu (from Tom Jackson),
and a certain somebody provided a coffee can of delish chocolate chip
cookies! I'm sure I missed something with all that great food, so just
go ahead and send me the leftovers and I'll add it to the list... 🙂
After eating, chatting, and hammocking for quite some time, we
freestyled in the road, and then headed to another slightly more
difficult trail, lacking Greg, Irene, and Pete. We climbed a really
steep hill, and finally met up with Jenn, Sorija, and Silas playing at
a park. I dropped off of any drop I could find at the playground, and
practiced riding skinnies with JC. Everybody else mostly stood around
while Miles, Adrian, Sorija, and Alex played on the toys.
We made our way home, to find my dad waiting to pick me up. After
chatting for some time, and giving our thanks to the Blackwoods, my dad
and I ran off. What a stellar ride!
Thanks for riding, everybody, and for hosting us, Tom, Marie, and
Miles!
Tom's Gallery is 'HERE' (http://tinyurl.com/lbgkj)
Tyler's Gallery is 'HERE'
(http://sports.webshots.com/album/554325927maXPph)
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