Thursday Night'r

The Thursday night shop ride went down. We were 3 strong. Jeremy, Nate dog, and I. No Steve or Ryan tonight, both are feeling a bit under the weather. Evidently they haven't been taking they're FRS. Get well soon Dudes.

I got out a lil early then met with the other two guys at the usual meeting time of 6:45 at the lower gate. I pulled up and got bitched at cause I was supposedly late........I still say I was right on time, they were just early. So after my lecture on tardiness we got the ride started. Nate was on his 23 lbs. (as of today) SuperFly, Jeremy the SS 69er and I on the EX with the new twisties and XTR derailleur, which worked butter smooth even in the mucky conditions.

We got stacked up on the very first up hill due to the peanut butter like texture of the trail. Not a good omen at the start of a ride. Trail conditions were variable. Some dry, fast sections but then you would hit a mucky section that would grab your tires and suck the speed right out. But it was nice not to deal with ice or snow. This could be the first ride in quite some time that didn't involve using an ice pic to keep things running.

I was hurt'n pretty good through most of the ride. A lil tired from doing a Time Trial effort yesterday to set some baseline numbers for the current interval torture. Oh mama, I was feel'n it day. Jeremy said he was hurt'n a bit from evil intervals. Sounds like that pain box has been opened. Nate was ride'n strong and looked to be in good form. Way to go Nate dog, glad you could make it.

Quite a bit of debris on the trails from the wind storm the last couple days. We tried to clear what we could, but it will require some chainsaw work to clear some. Jeremy is like a one man logging crew. For a tall skinny kid he sure can wrasle some logs...........Write us down for some trail hours for the trail points.

Ended up with around 2.5 hrs. ride time and some tired ass legs. It hurts so goooood!

Sorry no pics. Don't feel comfortable taking a camara out in these conditions. You'll just have to use your imaginaiton.

Later,
Josh