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Extreme Hawkie... sorta

Oh my god my shit is bruised.

Note to self:

Do not go extreme trail biking when you haven't ridden a bicycle in an unmentionable amount of years.

It was muddy, I wiped out five times (note the number five, means that I didn't give up.)

Five is the number of times that I was propelled sideways, downwards, one way or the other in an ungraceful like manner.

The number of times that I either gracefully, somewhat gracefully, or with very minute amounts of dignity(verbal accompaniment, quite classic) *dismounted* (read that as i did not wipe out and could have very likely said, 'i meant to do that') is infinate.

The second part of the 'note to self' would mean, DON'T RIDE A BOYS BIKE.
When I say, "My shit is bruised." I mean that it is probably a definition that you don't want. Suffice it to say that it's Sunday night, and Mike and I will be most likely, just watching a movie tonight.

The course markers went from A-Z. I did a number of wipeout/dismount/get backup on the bike, pedal pedal, pedal harder, oh shit, i dont have enough momentum to make it up the hill, dismount, walk the bike of the hill, psyche myself back up to the point of 'get back on the bike, this part of the trail is easy enough.... to get me to course marker L.

I was actually getting it. I figured out how to pull the handle bars back before going over stumps. I figured out how to brake (very very very important). I had a small rule, but very important one. "If you can not see the 20 feet of the trail, and you've been going uphill for a while. Get off the bike. You are about to plummet into a ravine." There's a huge amount of confidence that you gain from doing something so damn dangerous. It's a great mental exercise.

However, course marker L, the bike decided that it didn't like the stump in the mud ditch that I popped over ( I was so proud of that one ) and I had to walk the bike the rest of the way because of fear for damaging it further.

Now, I want my own bike. Green of course. With vine decals. I'm an addict in the making.

Ok, Imma gonna go pack my shit in ice.

seriously.

Posted by hawkie at May 15, 2005 07:14 PM