Michaux Meander

Sunday was a really nice ride with great peeps. Don, Zach, and Jim showed up and we tooled around Michaux in the snow, ice, and rime ice for 3+ hours. Made it from the house out to Grave Ridge and back in typical mountain bike wandery meandery fashion. Even fit in a new-to-me trail.

I stole all the pictures from Don, because he rocks. I was really glad he was able to come out to ride--work and life have been conspiring against him lately, it seems.

Rime ice on the undergrowth

Clouds blew out into a beautiful day with sun on the ice-rimmed trees--phenomenal.

We met Joel and the MBM crew at the end of a trail, BSed for a minute or two, then split up.

Zach has obviously recovered his log skillz.

demotivated

Gots little motivation right now. Overweight, undershape, no goals.

Gotta find a goal.

Need something to work for.

Lose this freaking poundage that has crept back into my life.

It's bad news--affects everything....

And not for the good.

crap.

Thanksgiving in Tsali

Look--two posts in a day. I'll be good for months...

We went to Tsali in NC over Thanksgiving. Decided to skip the family juggling and be really selfish and go ride our mountain bikes instead. Did all of Tsali in two days. About 18 miles on Friday and another 16-17 on Saturday. Fun trails--could be screaming fast with no leaf cover to hide the occasional obstacle. I tried to take pics but I had no luck with the camera. Here's one, anyway.

I suck.

It was crappy last night so we ended up doing a trainer session inside. It proved to me that I am woefully out of shape. In the past several months, I have almost never had to keep my legs spinning for a straight hour on the bike--coasting, stopping, waiting on people, mechanicals, etc.

As much as I try to avoid the hard, nasty truth, I cannot escape the fact that road biking immeasurably helps mountain biking.

I need to suck it up and do some road and trainer time this winter.