Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Half As Fast But Twice As Good

I really think today was too good to be true. I mean as TUESDAYS go. Warm temps, sunny, dry, with 2 hours of single track. On top of that I got a lot of mag work done, a ton of house stuff done and STILL managed to all my Dad stuff like Connect Four and Wiffle Ball.

The ride was just fantastic. I had good (enough) legs and the Dos Niner was it's typical snappy self. I love that bike. I really have to start splitting hairs when I try to think on how to make it better and really none of it comes down to the frame. If the frame was Ti I would be even more completely, head over heels in love with it. I mean it could get embarrassing.

The trail sabotage from yesterday is already on the mends (Thanks Trail Gnomes!) and the dirt is just primo. If I had more time I could ride this shit all day. But I don't, so two hours had to be the limit.

The funny thing, I basically have two hours per weekday to get a ride in. When I do a road ride I do about 32 miles and it takes me about 2 hours. When I do my "go to" loop at Boyce, it's 16 miles and it take me a hair under 2 hours. The road ride is twice as fast, but really... it's the road. So it might be twice as fast but... Lets just say "it ain't THAT fun and it AIN'T dirt". I'd like to say I'm taking tomorrow off, or I might "just ride the road". But I can't make a promise like that. ;)

Later.

posted by Jason @ 7:44 PM   2 comments

2 Comments:

At 3:11 AM, Blogger William said...

good to hear you got some mojo back :-)

 
At 1:55 PM, Blogger rick is! said...

I hear ya about the dos, I've been riding mine a lot recently while I eagerly await the selma and I find myself really enjoying it and hoping I still like the selma when it shows up.

 

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