An awesome weekend
Wow, what a weekend. I got to ride some cool trails and meet some new people and ride with some that I haven’t in awhile.
On Saturday, J and I met up with Ben, Maurice, Brendan and Danny for a fun filled day on some cool DH type trails in Poway. It’s not all DH fun though. You have to climb to the top after every run and “earn” the next DH. No shuttling here. So we still got in some pretty decent climbing.
As per usual, I didn’t take very many pics and what I did take was limited to the group messing around on a small jump. It was a fun day though and I got to really put the new All Mountain SL1 fork on the Reign through a hard thrashing. The verdict: Money well spent!! What a sweet fork. It soaks up the gnarly suff like it’s not even there. I am definitley excited about taking it to Noble Canyon next month. Final tally for Saturday: 7.68 miles with 1,599′ of climbing.
And now for a few pics:
PacMan fly by
J getting some air
BJammin
Maurice showing us how it’s done
Today, dad and I met up with Brendan and Francesca for a ride at Lake Hodges. We rode the usual loop on the north side and it was a really fun time. Riding with good people can make all the difference and that was the case today. Francesca and Brendan are real nice people and we had a great ride with some great times.
After we were done wth that, Francesca and Brendan had to leave and dad and I met up with Ben for a tour of the south side of Hodges. Neither dad or I have ever ridden over there, so we were excited to see what it was like. We were pretty fried after the north side, so we didn’t enjoy it as much as we would’ve if we were fresh, but it was still fun. There is some good stuff on the south side and I will have to re-ride it soon so I can explore more and take pics. Final tally for today was 21.86 miles with 1,569′ of verticle gain–all on my Singlespeed!!!!!!
As I sit here and type this, thinking about the awesome weekend I had, I am reminded of a short piece from BIKE magazine’s recent photo issue written by Jo Burt titled “Done”:
Lying in bed, face up, shoulder blades and butt cheeks touching the sheets, cool void in between. Legs dense and sinking deep into the mattress like it’s just thick water, hams tangibly aware, quads slowly pulsing to a whale’s heartbeat.
The usual knotted left calf, skin from short to sock line taught like pork crackling from the day’s sun. White feet and upper leg feel new and cool in comparison. Ride-exposed flesh is punctuated and tingling from every thorn, thick grass blade and vicious thing brushed past, with more concentrated pain pulsing from the stumbled pedal-kiss on the shin.
The boys done good. Sleep comes like a light switch.
Until then, seek your bliss.
Ride lots…
