If we’re friends on Facebook you might have seen this one already. Such a beautiful sunset bears repeating:

Feeling a bit revived after a weekend of taking it easy and looking at outside temps of 62 degrees, I opted for a nice long lunch ride. The only issue was that rifle season started this weekend so heading deep into the woods wasn’t a smart choice. I also didn’t want to further aggrevate my groin issue so I compromised. Climbed on the roads from the office up to Maple Run, rode Maple Run to Sterling Gorge and then back down again via road. This gave me some lung-burning climbing, a little bit of almost singletrack and a nicely paced ride.

There were a lot of hunters out there. Didn’t hear any shots, but saw plenty of pickups parked in random places. Rifle season is only a couple of weeks, I don’t begrudge them this time and stay out of their way as best as I can.

While going through my bag looking for all the receipts from my last trip I happened upon a scrunched up envelope at the very bottom. Turns out it was cash still leftover from my DH40 win, over three months ago. A happy surprise to find some fun cash, but made me a little sad as I remembered how fit I was during the height of the season and before I jacked myself up with that crash.

Time to start thinking about where I want to go and what I want to do in 2012. Any suggestions for something new?