Where the Heck is Spring?

Thursday we wore knee warmers and vests. Sunday it was 90.

I rode yesterday with Kristian. We started behind the MBM crew and never really hooked up with them. No pics, no mileage, no clue. Just almost 4 hours of pretty damn steady riding; very little stopping. Tried to follow MBM into Spoogerific, found the first arrow, flaked on the second, bushwhacked and backwoods'ed it out Staley, up again to the top, into the deerfence, through and out to Swift Run, back to the tippy top and down and around and back up again and then around some more and through and a wrong turn and back tracking and finding the trail and then down and around some more, and up again and across and down and then slightly up and then down and again along the creek to the cars. I ran out of water somewhere in there. We saw the MBM crew on the road below us whilst we were on trail in the woods above at another point. Hollered to and fro and then kept going. Lots of time spent on fireroads in the blazing sun and glaring heat. Building character. But also lots of time spent on trails I hadn't been on. Building knowledge.

I needed that ride.

Maximus Meanderings

Hit up a quasi-modified, half-assed, most but not all, kinda pre-ride attempt on the Maximus course on Saturday with a small crew. Planned to hit the first and third thirds while skipping the second third. Got that? Started from King Boyles's tiny empire in the valley, rolled up B-ville and almost at the top, I realized I left the GPS on the hood of the truck. So, Z and I went back to bottom to fetch electronic gizmo number 3 and reclimb B-ville to rejoin the crew at the top.

Too much electronics on the ride. Had the HR-hooey, the digicam and the GPS. I think my mental limit is two gizmos. Might have to ditch the HR-hooey. However it was funny to read that it properly miscalculated my calorie expenditure at about 5000+ for the ride. That shit can't be right.

Trails were fun, route was fun, climbing was mucho. Returned to the cars for a water reload then into the second part. Started to run short on time and had to cut it with a railtrail spin back.

This will be a fun race...

Pics, dammit!

Facebook, again, as well as blogs

I'm not on Facebook. I won't be. Don't wait for me.

Here's an interesting take by someone who quit Facebook.

As for the irony of me posting this on my own blog? I realize it. The jury's still out.

Interact with other people, for real, not for virtual.

trade offs

having a house is tough

when all you want to do is ride.

firewood saves money

but kills your spare time.

time versus money.

the conflict sucks.

R/NR? Part II--Stone is Forever

Check that map.

Hey, we have a Not Rideable, at least currently, courtesy of Camps.

We upped the ante yesterday on a ride, found a big rock to play on.

Is it rideable?

Not sure.

No one had the cojones to pull off the wheelie drop exit. Big move, high price for failure.

We didn't bother to measure as I think the scale is apparent enough in the pics.

But, since stone is forever, we'll be back to give it a whirl sometime.
However, my geologist-in-training riding bud would probably argue that point.