Ride this morning was awesome. Blue sky morning, trails swoopy, drifty and dry dry dry. It was a super fun couple of hours but I can't wait for the rain to come, and the trails to pack down a bit (lot). One of these is in order perhaps?
The swoopy awesomeness of the back of the NZO trail was in no doubt augmented by my choice of music, The Dirtbombs, Blood On The Wall, These Guys, and These Old Men.
Being the Neophyte that I am, when I ride I spend my time trying to focus on making each gear shift nicer than the last, graceful pedal strokes, working on my marginal/shonky line choices and looking out of instead of into corners, Keeping my head up and generally doing the right things....
A momentary lack of concentration, coupled with a graunchy gear change on a short steep uphill resulted in a minor oopie doo. Confidence undented I attempted a flying restart, cyclocross style. I pictured it looking like this in my head...
However, rationally, It probably looked something more like this...
Just lucky I was out so early there weren't no one around.
Returning home, I tagged Rebecca out, scooped up Egregious Pete and Snackey Lou from and spent the afternoon buying brake pads, de greaser, and hanging out with the grandparents. So far I have managed to avoid the Easter shop closing panic ( see Christmas shop closing panic) and have just enjoyed the family, the riding and the Nice things
Rebecca meanwhile worked steadily on the preparation for STRANGEVIEW GARDENS (Dropping at a farmer's market near you, winter 08!!) It's looking tight. mmmm home grown veges. mmmmm
Now I feel tired, I feel tired because try as I might, I stayed up late...I could never not stay up late for this guy...
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