The past couple of days the weather has been beautiful. Sunny and high 60's. I rode both days in just a shorts and a jersey.
Tuesday I headed to Fair Hill, hoping the trails had dried out enough to ride. I started the ride down the Twilight trail and the start of it was pretty good, but it quickly turned to crap. It was really sloppy and torn up thanks to idiot equestrians. I bailed out of this trail, crossed the road and all was good. I was cruising along having a good ride when I hit the sunken bridge, where the trails were a little soft, but not too bad. This was pretty much my ride, the trails were hit or miss. After an hour I just hit the gravel road and did a loop on it. The saddest part is that most of the sloppy trails would have been OK if they had not been trampled by careless horse people. They even went as far as to destroy trails clearly marked NO HORSES.
Yesterday I went to Middle Run/White Clay. The trails were much better. I would say 85% dry the rest just a little spongy. I rode most of the trails even the more delicate newer stuff and all was good. Of course there are no horses at these parks, coincidence? I don't think so.
Later today the weather is supposed to take a turn for the worse. Rain for 2 days then changing to snow. You have to be kidding me, we just got rid of the snow, things are just starting to dry out. Oh well, back to the road bike for a while.
By now you might think I hate horses. This is far from the truth. I live on a horse farm, in an area that is mostly horse farms. I am around them every day. The difference is, around here there are some trails but they are for horses. Sure others can use than but, it is not like it is a multi-use public park where irresponsible weekend want to be cowboys don't give a shit what kind of damage they do.
All right, that is it for the trail destroying horse posts.
Time to go ride,
Cheers,
Buddy
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Sunday, March 11, 2007
Watch Out For The Horse Shit!!!
Yesterdays ride was nothing short of epic. Bob the new Spotwhore and Kevin organized a century ride. Kevin provided the loop and Bob let us all meet and leave from his place. After getting and idea of what the loop would be, and that it would come by house towards the end I decided to ride to Bob's with the option to bail out when I got close to home.
I rolled out of my house a little after 7am. It was only about a 45 minute ride, but a nice warm up. It didn't take long for the rest of the group to show up. The Spotwhores on the ride were fatmarc, Matt run Forrest, Bob, and Fitzy with special guests Rob Thomas, and Tom Papa Smurf. From the Beans camp was Kevin, Marcus, Ryan, Rob, Scott and Craig.
The pace was very reasonable in the beginning. I wasn't quite feeling it yet so I held back, plus I kept reminding myself we were doing 100 miles. After a while Fitzy decided to bail out, he wasn't having his best day, don't worry Fitz, it will come around. The rest of the group headed towards Lancaster.
My legs started to come around so I found myself riding at the front more. Who am I kidding my legs were feeling great, the odd part was this happened 50 miles into the ride. After a nice tour of Amish country we started to head towards Unionville. It was good to be back on familiar roads. Since Matt and I knew this area the group let us lay out some of the loop. I was 70 miles in and still feeling great. Tom kept telling me how he was going to be there when I finally cracked, and how he was going to laugh it up at my expense. He never got the chance. We rolled to within a mile of my house, but I kept going determined to get 100 miles. I was going to try and ride back to Bob's and catch a ride home from Marc. About 92 miles in I started to feel to end was near for me. I didn't think I was going to make it to Bob's that would have been a 15 miles or so. So I decided to head for home. I made the turn to head up 842, a nice long steady climb into a ferocious headwind. Hey Tom, I cracked, but you weren't there to see it.
I made it home and ended up with 101 miles in 6 hours, not too bad. The rest of the group hit the 100 mile mark as well, so it was a great day of riding for all of us.
Today, I will not be riding, it feels weird not to ride on Sunday, but it is kind of nice.
Cheers,
Buddy
I rolled out of my house a little after 7am. It was only about a 45 minute ride, but a nice warm up. It didn't take long for the rest of the group to show up. The Spotwhores on the ride were fatmarc, Matt run Forrest, Bob, and Fitzy with special guests Rob Thomas, and Tom Papa Smurf. From the Beans camp was Kevin, Marcus, Ryan, Rob, Scott and Craig.
The pace was very reasonable in the beginning. I wasn't quite feeling it yet so I held back, plus I kept reminding myself we were doing 100 miles. After a while Fitzy decided to bail out, he wasn't having his best day, don't worry Fitz, it will come around. The rest of the group headed towards Lancaster.
My legs started to come around so I found myself riding at the front more. Who am I kidding my legs were feeling great, the odd part was this happened 50 miles into the ride. After a nice tour of Amish country we started to head towards Unionville. It was good to be back on familiar roads. Since Matt and I knew this area the group let us lay out some of the loop. I was 70 miles in and still feeling great. Tom kept telling me how he was going to be there when I finally cracked, and how he was going to laugh it up at my expense. He never got the chance. We rolled to within a mile of my house, but I kept going determined to get 100 miles. I was going to try and ride back to Bob's and catch a ride home from Marc. About 92 miles in I started to feel to end was near for me. I didn't think I was going to make it to Bob's that would have been a 15 miles or so. So I decided to head for home. I made the turn to head up 842, a nice long steady climb into a ferocious headwind. Hey Tom, I cracked, but you weren't there to see it.
I made it home and ended up with 101 miles in 6 hours, not too bad. The rest of the group hit the 100 mile mark as well, so it was a great day of riding for all of us.
Today, I will not be riding, it feels weird not to ride on Sunday, but it is kind of nice.
Cheers,
Buddy
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