Well its back to work after a couple weeks off. Its early but I'm not tired, when I'm caught up on sleep I can do 6hrs of Zzzzz's and feel ok. After a week of waking up at 4:15am I'll be tired, for now I'm good. It was a fun time off from work, riding bikes everyday and drinking beer every night, well almost every night. The scary thing is I can drink 4-5 beers and wake up ride bikes in the morning no problem, as long as I sleep for 8 hrs. I did feel the need to detox over the last couple of days doe. I'm going to the Billy Joel concert on Thrusday, I'll throw down some beerz that night.
Yesterday a bunch of us met at Mooch, we kept the ride tame and toured north, Deer Park and Stephens. We skipped rolly & lumpy but hit up rogue in Deer park, that trail is a lot of fun. There are so many good places to ride rocks up north, Sunday was my 4th consecutive day of such goodness. I did Wayway, Mahlon, Splitrock and Mooch, after that line up I was feeling it a bit yesterday, my lungs could not supply enough O2 to my body. In my defense I will say that Oishi was pushing the pace on the non-tech stuff, I've gotten used to winter time spinning along at about a 6mph avg. , yesterday we hit over 8mph avg.
@Mitch,
@UtahJoe ,
@pearl,
@jShort ,
@Chris26er , What is oishi's user name???
Of course the ride did have some hitch's in it, the more people in the group the better the chances of mechanicals. Lately Utah has been that guy but he is not a pita like I am when it comes to mechanicals...he knows how to fix his shit, Woody, Utah or Luke usually have to step in to repair my bike when I break it on the trail. This one required a bolt for the swing arm which no one had, a Jimmy Carter pin would have worked but no one had one of does either. Fortunately we were close to a road which led back to the cars so Utah was able to limp back easily. Not long after this Mitch destroyed his chainring on a rock. He and his SS survived the 30 minutes of climbing at north however it did not like a direct rock strike near the BS camp. Luckily he was close to the tranquilty lot and Utah was able to pick him up.
So the 5 of us cruised along north and made our way over to Deer park. It seems like that place has a lot of boring stuff until you hit rogue, maybe there is more good stuff but every time I go there it seems like a lot of filler until you hit rogue. The long downhill is a nice reward after climbing North the whole morning, too bad Mitch missed it. Eventually we came to the road and rolled over to Stephens to do a quick drive though and round the ride out to 2+hrs.
JP was with us, since he is leaving in a few weeks it was good to get the chance to ride with him. Hopefully we will have another ride together but if not at least I can say I did this one with him. I've got more stuff to say but I have to get to work. Happy Monday.
