Friday GMT - no wingdings because slackers.
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gotta give a talk at 10. guess i'd better finish it...then i get taken to lunch. solo dad this wknd. let's see what kind of mischief the boys and i can get into
It's all the baboons fault^^^
Heat wave for the next four days. with Sunday hitting over 100. Looks like dawn patrol or night rides for this boy
Heat wave for the next four days. with Sunday hitting over 100. Looks like dawn patrol or night rides for this boy
Morning Monkies! Did NOT sign up for Iron Man anything but looking into Montana back country MTB epics for next summer. Based on what I became accustomed to in ND I'm gonna need a chef and chauffeur.
FRIDAY!!!!!!!!
Pondering the idea of some full moon night laps at my favorite local mountain tonight. Maybe some howling too.
Pondering the idea of some full moon night laps at my favorite local mountain tonight. Maybe some howling too.
Don't forget the Scotch brigade!
Morning. Friday, yey. At the dentist, I apparently missed my original appointment when pedaling in deep trenches of Dakota. I am hoping for a daylight ride.
Oog. Kicking my ass outside.
I don't know why you do that to yourself.
Before I went to sleep last night my wife rolled over in bed, looked me in the eye and said, "I can't look at you right now, your face makes me sick." Tell me how you really feel why don't you.
Back at work today after spending half of Wednesday and all of yesterday in bed with a mind blowing headache and sore throat. Throat is still sore, but at least my brain doesn't feel like its going to explode.
Haven't swung a leg over a bike since Sunday. WTF.
Haven't swung a leg over a bike since Sunday. WTF.
Breakfast and an airplane in my immediate future.
Me neither. I need a target that pushes me to be really good about working out/training. I get fat easily if I don't work out, so yeah.
Atta boy.
Speaking of races, I've got a half marathon tomorrow. I haven't done a run-only race in five months so I have no idea what to expect. I've gotten stronger with my triathlon running, but I don't know how that'll translate to run-only. My only reason for doing this race is to get an idea of what to shoot for in my October marathon. I'll be happy with anything under 1:35 tomorrow.
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When I was driving back from MDH WTF?! I kept thinking about how much better riding we could find in 109 miles of MT singletrack and about "hosting" a 2017 Monkeyfest in SW MT and riding our faces off...
I envision drinking lots of beer...
Oh and 10 days or so of rides (2 weekends + a week in between) with short/regular and JPB/StiHacka/Full Trucker) length options for each day.
I haven't fleshed the rides out but we could easily fill a week+ with the "best of the best" rides within 2 hours of BZN -- many of which are threatened by WSA/eventual wilderness designations.
I'd be happy to grab campsites and do another Costco run (ahem, @TreeSaw @FullTrucker) and will try to post something up around April so monkeys have enough time re: plane tix/work obligations to make it happen around the last 2 weeks of August
I could even grab a few satellite (quiet) campsites to make it more "family friendly" if folks wanted to bring their mini-monkeys/spousal units out to Yellowstone/fishing/horseback riding/tubing the Madison...
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went climbing last night, second time this week. getting back into the groove and starting to make some progress again. stoked.
after climbing went for wings and beers w/ my climbing buddies. good times.
after climbing went for wings and beers w/ my climbing buddies. good times.
Yeah, no.
First hard frost of the season, had to scrape ice off of the windshield this AM.
And so it begins...
And so it begins...
Run and dog walk accomplished. Left over stir fry and coffee now. I have been tasked with logistics and a last minute trip to Denver in support of wife/daughter girl scout troop.
Better get off my ass so I can beat traffic and be back in time to ride with @JohnE this afternoon.I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Lizard people won't let me give you rep.
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Looks like there might be some rain in Pisgah. Hopefully not. Really need to get away for a couple days, really...
@AngryMetalsmith - you can still shred pisgah in the rain...
@rockofullr - the trail around 1:00 looks like the kind of fun stuff we ride around here
@rockofullr - the trail around 1:00 looks like the kind of fun stuff we ride around here
Rain is one thing, but rolling solo in the backcountry during a thunderstorm is just stupid. Not that I'm adamantly opposed to participating in such stupidity. Just don't want to waste money to do it.
Yeah buddy! Anyone who's ridden in the bay for long enough should know that one (@stoney ). Chaparral at Joaquin Miller Park. You pretty much just pick a line and hold on through the ruts, rocks, and water bars.@rockofullr - the trail around 1:00 looks like the kind of fun stuff we ride around here
Without watching the video, your description describes riding on the side o' a hill.
Chaparral? Let go of the brakes and keep your front wheel up. It will probably end well. Probably. What's the one just to the other side with the stupid rutted steps at the top? I hearted that trail.
Ugh, three hours on the phone with IRS, only to find out after three months they do not actually have my amended return... son of a bitch
Can't think of the trail your talking about unless you mean the one down by the creek. I mostly just session Cinderella and Chaparral when I'm there, and I don't do that often since hiker traffic is a problem on the weekends.Without watching the video, your description describes riding on the side o' a hill.
Chaparral? Let go of the brakes and keep your front wheel up. It will probably end well. Probably. What's the one just to the other side with the stupid rutted steps at the top? I hearted that trail.
As for Side O' I haven't been there in years and I've heard various different things as to weather or not it's still any good. There was a bunch of brewhaha over that trail a while back. Pacifica is still fun as ever though! They put in a 360 (almost) berm. We tried to train 4 riders through it and failed, see :15 on the video.
Show up at Killington to find half the goddamned mtn is closed because 10,000 motherfucking Spartan racers need to out-fitness each other all over the fucking place.
Rode laps on the shitty trails that were open until strategic flirting with the lift wench produced info on how to access the goods.
Found an actual use for flow trails when we rode up one, combined with some hellacious fire roads, to the top of the closed lift and had the place to ourselves.
Rode laps on the shitty trails that were open until strategic flirting with the lift wench produced info on how to access the goods.
Found an actual use for flow trails when we rode up one, combined with some hellacious fire roads, to the top of the closed lift and had the place to ourselves.