1, 2 John broke the buckle on My Shoe.

I didn't ride at Fair Hill much over the winter and early part of spring. It was kind of forgotten. This week I made two trips to Fair Hill, one on Thursday night for 2:30 and one today for almost 3 hours. This place is awesome I will not forget about it again. Today found Marc (www.fatmarc.com), John Cleary and myself. We rolled out of Marc's house at 8:30 planning on 3 hours of a steady but moderate pace. The trails were great and we were having a blast. I don't think it was a moderate pace more like a hammer fest. But that was cool with me, I was hoping for 3 hard rides this week. I can see a drastic improvement in Marc's fitness, he says he is not where he wants to be yet but he is getting close. I have to tell you if he gets any closer he's going to be tough to keep up with.

We came upon a little stunt and all of us rode down it, I had to try twice. Marc and John rode up it. I gave it one attempt and got onto it but didn't put it together so I took pictures while John and Marc made it look easy. Later while we were going down one of the fast downhills along the fence, Marc stopped and warned of a guy and his dog. I made a feeble attempt to warn John but he didn't hear me. Next thing I know I hear "OH SHIT", as John crashes into the back of me. He didn't hit me hard and I didn't go down but He did. We gathered our thoughts checked our bikes and continued on. After 2 hours John had to get home so it was just Marc and I.
He wanted to hit the climbs that were at the end of the race course. These are 3 tough climbs especially 2:30 hours into the ride. We were both tired but it was worth it. When Marc and I got back to his house I started to get changed and noticed the buckle on my brand new Sidi shoes was broken. I couldn't get it undone so I had to force my shoe off. It had to happen when John crashed into me. It wasn't a big deal though because my old shoes had the same buckles and I was able to change it and it is all good now.

Well I am tired and need to stretch, but I am still looking forward to French Creek tomorrow.