Ride #2 in midhurst

So lastnight I decided to go back to Midhurst and ride it again. So i brought the dog and the girlfriend. Good riding. Tired the heck out of Kona for about 20 minutes, then she wanted to play again.

So the ride went pretty well. Stuck to riding like the night before, no changing gears. Hopefully if I do a ride or two a week like that it will help improve my strength(aka, climbing, which sucks right now). Sitting at work right now makes me wish I had called in sick. I was going to get out on the road bike(actually my dads while I wait for my frame to be warrentied) over lunch today, but I slept in and coulndt get my stuff all together intime to be to work not late. So I think that me and Ange are going to get an interval workout in tonight, we need to get her back on the podium. 1.5 weeks till albion. Hopefully it is nice and dry, and I can try and put some hurt on the Sport feild, if I can hold onto a top 5 at albion I will be alot happier then stupid 18th.

Monday night ride

So I noticed on facebook last week that Jeremy from the Barrie Trek store had made an event about a monday night ride. I asked about it, and I was told that I was for sure ok to come out. It was a night ride behind the Simcoe County Building. Sounds good. I headed up early to get on some of the trails in light, both so I could see the trails before I rode them in the dark, and to get a longer ride in. I got a solid hour of interval riding in, then what was supposed to be a nice easy ride back to the cars to meet the guys. Well I hit a little root and did this.


That was a stick that thankfully didnt puncture my ass, but it did give me some solid cuts, and tore the shit out of my shorts. You can see the blood on the shorts still.

So i got back, asked if anyone had any duct tape, found out no one did, so I was relegated to the back of the ride so I wasnt mooning someone the whole time. Got set up with matts old light system, and off we went. It was a pretty decent pace for me, as these riders are mostly alot faster then me. About half way through the ride, i was convinced to not change gears anymore. So off we went, no changing gears. Somehow, by the end of the ride I managed to get into my 14 sprocket....which would explain why it was so hard at the end....that or I am week.

OCup-#1

So the race didnt go as well as I would have hoped. I had a good start. Stayed with the lead group through lap one, despite have terrible tires for this course. I thought I was sitting around 10th or so comming through the feed zone, turns out I was 4th. Though I just couldnt hold it. The tire problems plagged me really bad on lap 2, as I couldnt climb most of the big climbs, and a few fast corners I just shot right through the corner, and had to wait till a pack went by, then I was killing myself to try and get back up to them. I was pretty beat by lap 3. Riding the Hard Tail was rough on my back. If I keep riding it i will have to get used to it again. Though i am going to be taking in my FS to get the linkage bearings/bushings fixed. So I might be back on it soon. So I finished the race in 18th. So i will have to live with that. Though apparently I was one of the fastest people on the crazy downhill section near the end of the lap, so I am happy with that. Though now its time to train and get ready for Albion.

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