It’s Autumn!

Today was a good day. After fitting a new set of Avid FR-5 levers on my bike to replacement the one I snapped in a rock garden I put my bike on the car and headed over to Stony Creek. A bit under an hour later I left, having covered all the single track and a second go through The Pines.

The trails were in excellent shape, as many of the freshly fallen leaves have begun breaking down which both keeps them from being as slippery and reveals the roots and rocks they had obscured for the last couple of weeks. This made for a very nice ride, and I felt like I was able to push myself a bit harder than normal and right to the edge of my ability quite a few times.

Danielle had been hoping to ride the paved areas while I did the XC trails, but a really bad headache kept her back at my house. Normally her and I would split up for some riding then I’d join her for another lap around the park, but that just didn’t work out this time.

After getting back here and showering we headed out to ‘s Halloween party meeting up with a bunch of nifty people, but Danielle’s headache came back pretty fiercely while we were there. We ended up leaving then making a quick appearance at IPM as promised before Danielle’s headache got even worse, then we headed back here. To be honest, I’m not feeling too hot myself either, but I think my problems are related to all of the candy and chips that I ate while out and about today.

Now I think it’s time for bed, then tomorrow will be a birthday party, some cleaning up around the house, returning a few unwanted things to REI, and likely some other, unforeseen things.

Oh, and here’s two photos:

· Looking down a short piece of single track, past some old fence posts, at Stony Creek on a very nice autumn day. (As Seen Above – Full Res)
· Part of the single track in the first third of the Roller Coaster at Stony Creek. (Full Res)