Lazy Blogger, Mtb Ride

October 9, 2005 at 9:02 pm · Filed under Cycling

I suck at this blog thing . Seems I can never keep up with it!

Today I went on an awesome mountain bike ride. Finally got my bike back after ripping the derallieur (sp?) off the bike a few weeks ago. Started a decent after a long climb and the chain broke, caught the deralliuer and pulled it up and over and into my year wheel. Luckily no damage to the wheel but needed a new chain and replaced the D. Ended up running and coasting the bike homw about 8 miles. Sucked. Turned into a 5 hour ride/duathlon.

So picked it up last night and went out today. Been a bit laxed on riding so was definitely worked on the climbs. The decent however was awesome. Lots of quick turns and pretty technical for the first few miles. Lots of fun, like riding a roller coaster. I laughed all the way down.

BigMatt was with me. He’s getting much better with his mtb skills, just picked it up a few weeks ago when he decided to do Xterra in 2 weeks. Anyway he handles the technical aspect much better, but still has issue with the pebbles . This is our second ride together and both times we descend through a technical section only for him to go down hard 20 yards later when there’s nothing but smooth riding. Odd.

I’m heading to Kona on Wednesday to support Chris and hopefully get some good pics for the site. Should be a good race.

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