I have NOT been on my bike enough!
Well, Since my last post I've only ridden once. Erinna competed in the Baker's Dozen and I supported, so that knocked out one weekend. The PMBAR is in two days so this week has been filled with race stuff. Erinna and I did get out for a nice ride with Sophie on Sunday past though:
We started at Yellow Gap-> Laurel Mountain trail. We talked a bit about ride descriptions and 'the book'. 'The Editor' gave me my first deadline so I was looking at the trail a bit more critically this time. We started at a great pace and I ven cleared a couple of the lower obsticles. Sophie was doing great. Erinna wasn't having the best day on the bike. We stopped at the meeting log for a breather but continued on pretty quickly. We payed particular attention to the Gaps, I mean, which one we were in. When we got to the cairns we stopped and built a few new ones and deided to head on down at theat point. I had a blast going down. There werea few moments wher I was completely out of control... Sking rather than riding the bike down the hill. I was a little hot coming into the nastyest section but made it through unscathed. We crossed the creek at the bottom and went over to Slate Rock. The view was incredible! The top of the mountains are still brown like winter but the valleys are green green green. The ride off the rock went by very quickly then we had a couple of miles of gravel to get back to the car. That climb out of Bradley is always a killer and that day was no exception. Back to the car pretty quickly. Great ride, the only one in two weeks!
