I lost it. I lost it hard. 2 kids, lose of a economic downturn building construction based job, becoming a stay-at-home dad, nights of no sleep, sick kids, wife working full time. It all conspired to keep me off my bike.
Oh i tried but every time I planned something something fell through and i missed the ride.
I finally got it coordinated this Saturday, a group ride with new people, a trail I have never ridden and a beautiful pre-desert summer day.
We gathered in the parking lot of a local cafe, infiltrating the ranks of the spandex clad, carbon wonder bikes crew, primping and preening for their ride up Mt. Lemmon road. We decided on route, we loaded into cars, we headed up.
Up up we went, we dropped cars at the end and headed to the start. High up, cold and breezy. We suited up.
the view is huge:
We dropped in, some made it:
some not as cleanly:
Green Mountain is fun:
It makes you pay for your play however and we paid dearly with a lot of climbing, a lot of hiking and a lot of "What the heck is the elevation here?":
There are some cool things on this trail:
Some of us rolled on hardtails, some with no gears, some with no suspension, some with big wheels and some with small wheels but all of us rolled together:
There was little in the way of things that weren't prickly in the local flora, however even those that were were not without their beauty:
The downs were fantastic:
The landscape hasn't really recovered fully from the big fires:
Didn't stop us however, we still rode there and enjoyed it!:
I hope that I can get together with a group of people I have never before ridden with, explore a trail I have never experienced and have this good of a time many more times in my cycling life.
Just because you lost it doesn't mean it was lost, it was just waiting for you to remember where it was, retrieve it, clean it up and put it back where it belonged!
Oh i tried but every time I planned something something fell through and i missed the ride.
I finally got it coordinated this Saturday, a group ride with new people, a trail I have never ridden and a beautiful pre-desert summer day.
We gathered in the parking lot of a local cafe, infiltrating the ranks of the spandex clad, carbon wonder bikes crew, primping and preening for their ride up Mt. Lemmon road. We decided on route, we loaded into cars, we headed up.
Up up we went, we dropped cars at the end and headed to the start. High up, cold and breezy. We suited up.
the view is huge:
We dropped in, some made it:
some not as cleanly:
Green Mountain is fun:
It makes you pay for your play however and we paid dearly with a lot of climbing, a lot of hiking and a lot of "What the heck is the elevation here?":
There are some cool things on this trail:
Some of us rolled on hardtails, some with no gears, some with no suspension, some with big wheels and some with small wheels but all of us rolled together:
There was little in the way of things that weren't prickly in the local flora, however even those that were were not without their beauty:
The downs were fantastic:
The landscape hasn't really recovered fully from the big fires:
Didn't stop us however, we still rode there and enjoyed it!:
I hope that I can get together with a group of people I have never before ridden with, explore a trail I have never experienced and have this good of a time many more times in my cycling life.
Just because you lost it doesn't mean it was lost, it was just waiting for you to remember where it was, retrieve it, clean it up and put it back where it belonged!