Back in early June I developed what I have self-diagnosed as tendinitis. I had started off the season's mountain biking hard, switching from the easier trails to the more technical ones earlier than usual and going much harder on them then I usually did. This is my 7th season riding since buying...
Not actually my first since I did go out with my youngest for a short trip around some of the main trail last weekend, but the first serious ride. It's been so much colder than normal for so long now and I usually don't start taking the bike out till its at least 50F (I never got a winter kit toget...
The weather was stunningly beautiful with highs of only 70, a cool breeze and clear skies. I started off with a morning ride at Glacier Ridge (PDF map) where I finally was able to get in the entire track (including all the black diamonds). I was pretty slow, it took me nearly two hours but I sto...
Had to stay really late fixing up some server issues after the storm so decided to go in a little late this morning and ride instead. I don't know what I was expecting to see back on the trails after the hurricane, but it was pretty bad. In places you couldn't tell the trail from the underbrush, i...
I finally got out to Cathedral last weekend. I was pressed for time and had to go earlier than I might otherwise have so when I left it was still only about 50 degrees F. I haven't done really any work on the bike which is now 9 years old (I didn't get it new) but I was able to inflate the tires a...
At the top of Campsite (about 10 miles in)
The girls enjoyed their introductory ride at CP yesterday, but I still needed to get my own ride in. The skies were threatening, but the weather maps looked like I'd have at least a few hours before anything serious was to roll in so I suited up and he...
Biked Cathedral Pines tonight again since it looks like rain may dampen any bike plans for the weekend. Odometer read 9.6 miles total with all black diamonds, and did it in 1 hour, 7 mins. That may seem slow, but its my best time this season. Perhaps that last ride at Glacier Ridge helped me ma...
Glacial erratic on the White Ghost trail (6/7/10)
Left work a little early yesterday with some planned time off and faced a dilemma when I got home. Although my job isn't physically demanding, I usually come home exhausted. So the choice of stopping to pick up beer and sit on the couch and wat...
I finished my ride on the bike trail in just over 1 hr, 10 mn last night (all told with every black diamond and optional trail its about 9.5 miles). As I rode around the perimeter of the central fields on the single track, it seemed that every inch of every open field in the park (every single fiel...
In more mundane news, sometime in June I bought a mountain bike used from a guy at work. He's been into biking for many years and this was his 2002 Giant Warp DS-1 that he had put almost 600 miles on. He's about 12 years older than me, but our first time out together at a local park he squarely ki...
