No looking back
Sorry for the break there, but ever since the Conyer race finished up I feel like I have been going full bore into the 27 different projects. The BURN 24 went great, then the Fool’s Gold prep began in earnest with the expansion of our festival to include SORBA’s annual festival, then Namrita & I started working on something new (details later), I moved 55nine Performance to AVX Bikes last week (more on that later), plus we are training again since we have a break in the racing. For some reason I was thinking that when I finished the race at Conyers, there would be some down time to chill, but it was swallowed whole by my need to over commit. Such is the life.
Over the 4th weekend, Namrita, Harvey, Mark B & I went north to our favorite house in the woods. We had 5 dogs between us which was entertainment enough, but we rode some too. Friday we hit up the Cartecay ride at Tanasi. The crowd was large and the riding was great. Nam, Harvey & I ended up on our own pretty quick as the A group was out for a race and we, well, were not. Nam & I were on single speeds (yup still running it), so our pace was a little different than that of the group too. We even had two trips down Thunder Rocks Express which is so much fun. Saturday Nam, Mark & I rode the proposed Fool’s Gold route. It’s going to be a good. I suspect some faster times than last year, but it will be just as challenging. Intrepid explorer, Dave Muse joined us on Sunday for some more fun. We rode some up Cooper Gap again which I thought was going to pop my legs (that came later) then headed for parts best not said in public. Let’s just say that there are some many little trails out there that one can spend weeks exploring and still find new ones. When the dust finally settled we had ridden about 105 miles in about 11 hours and yes, legs did finally pop somewhere to the west of Camp Merrill.
I’m going to make an effort to write a little more often again……