Well, a little over three weeks had passed since my last ride (which I described in my last post).  The shoulder was finally feeling better – thumb not quite 100% - and the weather was great.  I could not pass on getting the bike down and getting back on the trails.

 

So, I left work headed home, changed and went to pull the bike off the hook in the basement.  As I reached up to get the bike, of course I felt the pain in my shoulder.  Not real pain, just that shadow of past pain, a lingering reminder, like the one from your childhood that reminds you not to stick your fingers in the spokes while the tire is spinning.

 

Soon enough I was off and on my way to the park; excited to both ride again and see the “dumbing-down” that everyone was talking about.  The ride to the park was the fairly uneventful, trying not to get creamed by cars on their rush hour commute.  The first few sections were also uneventful. 

 

I have to say, after the two wash-out wrecks during my last...

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Leave house about 6:25.  Damn, getting a late start.

 

First few sections of trail uneventful.

 

Hit reroute section of No-Net (where everyone was working on Sat).  A little disappointed.  I liked that section before the reroute and didn’t think it was all that technical.  The sphincter puckering section – the steep rocky downhill leading to the waterfall – is still there.

 

Immediately thereafter nearly fall backwards over the downed log that you have to ride around when, for some inexplicable reason, I stopped pedaling, steering or thinking.  Got some nice scrapes on the back of left calf.  No worries, something to compare against Robs wounds.

 

6:45 hit cut off to go to golf course/wilderness loop.  Cool…plenty of daylight left, enough to ride both sections.

 

Clear Montana’s Pass (correct name?) - the upper trail @ Big Rock - for the first time.  Felt good, even if it was the easy direction.

 

Head to Wilderness Loop.  Got some nice air crossing the golf cart path…not too bad for an old man.

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