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nick | September 6, 2008
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Cool Weather, Cool Ride

Marty and were able to get out of the house relatively early this morning (a bit before 10AM) and head out to Stony Creek for a ride.  The weather was beautiful, the trail was in great condition (after getting some much needed rain earlier this week)  We were able to ride the course for the XC race tomorrow, and get in a little over 10 miles.

I’ve been getting out and putting some miles onto my CX bike locally, and finally getting some consistant riding in made a difference.  I felt better on a bike then I have in a few months.  It takes some time to climb out of the hole, but it’s worth in once you start to get back into shape.

Couple of pictures from this morning after the break.

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nick | July 20, 2008
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Spinning our Asses off

Despite some early rain, Marty and I headed out and did some long rail trail and backroad riding.

We got up sort of early, and checked out the weather.  There was a small system moving through, but it looked weak, and nothing coming behind it.  So we tossed the bikes onto the Jeep, and headed to Richmond.

The Ride Data

The Ride Data

We got rolling right around 10AM, and the rain was in sort of a medium drizzle.  But, within 10-15 minutes, it let up completely, and that was the last of the rain for the day.

We heading out toward Armada on the trail, and then shot up Omo toward my parents.  Stopped and chatted for about an hour, then headed back out.  Took a different route down a bit further west, and caught the trail and headed back east.

Having covered a few miles of the trail that we hadn’t ridden before on the trip out, we covered out last virgin mile of MOT between North Ave and Omo Roads on the way back.  We’ve covered every inch of the trail at this point, a little over 23 miles in total.  Sometime before the year is over, we’ll have to do it end to end at lest once.

We were just short of 30 miles today, and about 2:30 on the bikes.  ~11.5 average speed, not bad considering we were both on out SS with fairly low gears (32×19 and 34×18)

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