Crappy Picture- L.Webb out of the furnace on the three field climb...

Rides this weekend:

Sat.- it rained all day Friday so most of the trails were going to be too wet. My back was somewhat jammed up, and the road bike makes it worse, so I headed out on the road on the mtb. I did the back half of the icicle metric century. I felt pretty good on the hills in Landenberg. I was SoPRO when I got a call on my cell, and was talking while climbing up a hill. I usually don't carry a phone, but with Riley hospitalized, I wanted to stay near contact.

Sun-
I was totally grumpy, was up all night with the dog, and my legs hurt. Ted Logic, LWebb and I hit the fairhill course. Ted Logic was rocking his new Bianchi Sass which was a replacement for his old Bianchi which he broke. I tried to talk them into cutting out a couple of sections, but I was rudely rebuffed. "don't you want to see the whole course?" Lauri said to me. Ted Logic, who on the way over was talking about bailing early said, "yeah, man, I want to do the whole thing.."

Fuck me. My legs hurt.

About half way through the loop we picked up Karate John. I hadn't rocked with him in a while, it was great to see him. He was one of the founders of the original ww mtb team, and a god father of mtbing in our area.

Pace was good, we were making great time until L.Webb flatted, and didn't have anything. She joked about the camp she is leading next week and rule number one ,"always be prepared..." A stranger stopped and gave her a tube, which was weird because KJ and Ted Logic had tubes. Whatever he was a really nice guy, maybe he was paying it forward...

Rode the new section of the course. It's very short, Just a little piece of single track, but really steep. It won't add much to the loop, just a section to make it a little tougher. One last punch in the gut before the final big climb. We'll call it a mandatory dismount for the single speeders. All in all the entire course is in great shape and was very fun.