The last two days have been cold. No, I mean really cold. Like 20 degrees cold, without wind chill…. that was yesterday and today was 32 degrees with almost no wind. So what did I do? Ride. 45 minutes yesterday and an hour forty or so today.
Quitting riding Monday was not really as bad as it sounds….. well kind of. It was very windy in addition to being cold. As I was rolling across the bridge to get to my planned route fear for actually flying off the bridge into the water below and drowning was a real worry. No I do not exaggerate. Really the winds were around 35 to 40 miles per hours. No really. So where is the proof? Like a picture? Well I didn’t get one because I thought if I took a hand off the bar flying away like freaking Dorothy leaving Kansas. Except it would have been me flying into the Atlantic Ocean. Yeah, great stinking ride…. not so much.
Today was a bit better, still very cold, but no wind. So I went to Fountainhead and rode. One and a half laps. Was it fun? No, but it was hard. The new trails out there are frozen and I got a feeling of what they will be like in a few months, because until then the new stuff will be a bit wet or frozen. It was faster than normal, which was fun, but all the brake bumps, or places where people consistently use their brakes to slow causing divots in trail were hard too. And there were a lot of brake bumps. Not sure why really. The trail is pretty fast and flowing with out a real need to use the brakes that much… well not those guys I ride with… seems like others do…..
What else, oh I rode with a very good person, a very Burleigh girl. She is fun, fastish and really needs to realize that she has the skilz to ride the trail easily. Not sure if I am that guy to help her figure that out, but hopefully she feels no pressure to “perform”. I just want to have fun. It is nice to ride with people. Speaking of people, I have proof I, at least, see people of the trail even if I can’t prove I have friends.
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