Here’s the river crossing from my sunday ride. The water was just up to my knees and pretty darn cold. Luckily there’s a long, painful climb to warm up the feet afterwards. Surprisingly I didn’t get that cold.

Here the singletrack begins. As you can imagine, route finding at this time of year can be tricky. As it had been several years since I was back there I really had to work the brain to remember the layout of the trail and stay on track.

The results from my sunday ride included sore abs, multiple bruises, and sore groin. Sigh. The general soreness was to be expected as I hadn’t been on my mountain bike in a while and hadn’t had a two hour ride in quite a few weeks. The bruises are just the way it goes, but I really didn’t need to exacerbate the groin injury again. My plan is to back off the mountain bike for the week in hopes that I feel good to ride the 20ish miles of the Circumburke this weekend at a nice leisurely pace.

Road bike on the roof of the car to reward me for when I finally finish these press releases I’ve been procrastinating.