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I currently smell bad, mud is stuck to every major part of my body, and I feel very content. I’m also amazed at just how much water the skin on my head can wick from the rest of my body, only to sweat it out. (Yes, I have a big head and it is really oily and sweats a whole lot.)
Tonight my brother-in-law Craig and I met up at the Stony Creek mountain bike trails, as he’d just acquired a new-to-him bike and we wanted to do some riding. Not far into the trail we happened to run into the folks who were doing the regular Wednesday Night MMBA ride and tagged along with them. As we’d hit up The Pines earlier, we ended up covering all of the single track in the park, pretty much none of which Craig had been on before.
The ride was pretty uneventful and fun, and Craig seemed to do quite well for his first time on them with that bike. I almost fell once on The Pines when learning just how slippery mud is, but that wasn’t a huge deal. The mud after that just meant that both my bike and I regularly got sprayed with lumps.
After finishing up about 9.5 miles in the mountain bike trails Craig headed home and I took off to ride over to the still-under-construction Skills Park so that I could see it and hoping to meet up with Nick / Dirt. I’d been told that there were people there working on it this evening, but everyone had already left so I took a few minutes to down half a Clif bar (I was feeling a bit faint) and then headed back to the car and home.
Total distance today was about 14.5 miles, with more than 2/3 of that being off road, and primarily single track. I feel good.