Slow & Muddy

I wanted to do a short ride today since I want to get a longer effort in tomorrow. I thought about just doing a flat cruise on the rail trails for an hour and half, but just had no desire. So I headed over to Boyce before the rains came.

Sadly even know it didn't rain here in the Dubya-Oh, it DID seem to rain in Monroeville, so the trails were slick at snot. But I was happy to be riding some single track, kept it slower than my normal crawl, and just had fun trying to keep the rubber side down on the slick clay and roots. I'm always amazed at how much more I notice the amount of roots that seem to be perpendicular to the trail when its wet.

Coming up one small hill a low branch entered my helmet vent, I thought it would break. What almost broke was my freaking neck! JEEZE-LOUISE!! As I pedaled on the clouds got a bit darker, and it started to drizzle. No worries, I'm already wet and almost done, so I pedaled on. A little on I run into a dude doing some serious trail work solo. He had just cleared a major tree off the trail, but there was one more piece that was being hung up on a nasty vine. He had rope all looped around the tree, so I offered some help and we started pulling like two fools and could not get the vine to give up. Oh well it was a nice attempt. Cheers to the dude for doing all that work to clear the trail.

Short ride completed, I head back to the xB, get cleaned up and stop at the local six pack shop to pick up some weekend goodies. Then the skies opened up and pissed down rain. Looked like I got out of the woods just in time!

Time to enjoy some of those goodies I bought, hang with my two favorite people and think about a long ride tomorrow.

Later