Jennifer Dilworth Hynes — mtbchk

Since my last post, my feelings on road riding have changed a bit.

A stupid redneck came a little close on Thursday, and my gut instinct was the WRONG instinct in this case.  (Don’t challenge or yell at an idiot) Nothing really happened, but I was shaken up enough to cut my ride short.  I didn’t ride on Friday.  I would have ridden at lunch today, but I didn’t have the bike because I thought it was going to rain and I have Brian’s bike in the car still.  So, no road riding since Thursday.

Saturday we worked at Harrisburg for a few hours.  We got a bunch of work done on the berms.  This short track is going to be pretty fun.  Then, we went over to UNCC.  We haven’t been there since 2002.  Man, I forgot how much fun those trails were.  We were there for about 2 hours and logged around 9 miles.  There were a bunch of sections we missed, and we did a lot of back tracking and a little bush hogging.  The trails are confusing, and I’d like to go back with someone who really knows them.  I was going off of what I could remember, but a lot has changed since then.

These trails are still the rough “mountain bike” trails I remember.  I remembered them as being hard.  I thought, “Well, I’ve gotten better since the last time I was there.  Maybe they aren’t really that hard”.  Yes.  They are still hard.  I probably did more of it faster than before, but they are still quite technically challenging.  Lots of logs, some rocks, a BUNCH of whoop-de-dos, steep hills both up and down, and challenging creek crossings.  These trails will now be in my trail-queue.  I just need to get Jerry or someone to show me around.

Two laps at Reni on Sunday on the SS, and I was tired.  No riding today.  Beatty probably tomorrow.  Will (hopefully) get my gift from Taryn.