volklgirl
Ski Diva Extraordinaire
So, am I just being a wussy this year?
I've had 2 easy rides on the SS this year. Just some swoopy singletrack with only the tiniest of log piles (maybe a foot high?), and I was feeling pretty good. On Saturday, hubby says he wants to go to Greenville to ride (one of my very favorite places), so I'm a happy camper. I'm figuring he'll go to the Shearer Rd trail which is a flowing 4.5 miler with a couple of larger log piles, 2 rock gardens, 1 skinny, 1 log skinny, and a couple of bridges. Instead, he chooses Edwards Creek. So, for my first ride on the FS bike for the year, I get 7 miles of trecherous up-and-down-hill switchbacks, huge log piles, a big off-camber TeePee, a Teeter Totter, several scary bridge crossings, some side-hill and tree-squeeze action, bermed BMX-style and other generally scary stuff.
I by-pass the first couple of scary things but manage to crash anyway. I manage to over heat (it's only 74 deg out!) and have an asthma attack within the first 4 miles. Finally, I decide to do Danger TeePee, having done it successfully probably 5-10 times last year. Instead, I miss the off-camber part and drop off the back side face-first from about 4 feet up. Now sporting a black eye, a cool nose bridge bruise that follows the nose piece of my sunglasses, a fat and bloody lip, and a scraped and bloody nose and cheek, I manage to chicken out of everything else for the remainder of the 7 mile ride.
At this point, I'm almost afraid to ride my FS. :( Is this just normal early season jitters? Is anyone else feeling a little confidence lacking this early in the season? Or am I just being a sissy-woosy?
Any tips on how to get my "Grrrrr" back?
The entrance to Danger TeePee
Danger TeePee (it looks straight, but it actually jogs to rider's right at the top)
Other Pics from the Edwards Creek and Shearer Rd trails
I've had 2 easy rides on the SS this year. Just some swoopy singletrack with only the tiniest of log piles (maybe a foot high?), and I was feeling pretty good. On Saturday, hubby says he wants to go to Greenville to ride (one of my very favorite places), so I'm a happy camper. I'm figuring he'll go to the Shearer Rd trail which is a flowing 4.5 miler with a couple of larger log piles, 2 rock gardens, 1 skinny, 1 log skinny, and a couple of bridges. Instead, he chooses Edwards Creek. So, for my first ride on the FS bike for the year, I get 7 miles of trecherous up-and-down-hill switchbacks, huge log piles, a big off-camber TeePee, a Teeter Totter, several scary bridge crossings, some side-hill and tree-squeeze action, bermed BMX-style and other generally scary stuff.
I by-pass the first couple of scary things but manage to crash anyway. I manage to over heat (it's only 74 deg out!) and have an asthma attack within the first 4 miles. Finally, I decide to do Danger TeePee, having done it successfully probably 5-10 times last year. Instead, I miss the off-camber part and drop off the back side face-first from about 4 feet up. Now sporting a black eye, a cool nose bridge bruise that follows the nose piece of my sunglasses, a fat and bloody lip, and a scraped and bloody nose and cheek, I manage to chicken out of everything else for the remainder of the 7 mile ride.
At this point, I'm almost afraid to ride my FS. :( Is this just normal early season jitters? Is anyone else feeling a little confidence lacking this early in the season? Or am I just being a sissy-woosy?
Any tips on how to get my "Grrrrr" back?
The entrance to Danger TeePee
Danger TeePee (it looks straight, but it actually jogs to rider's right at the top)
Other Pics from the Edwards Creek and Shearer Rd trails
Surprise! 
. You need to drag him along every week. Let's just say I was amazed 
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Yet, it was all worth it! Thank goodness I carry the chain tool and a spare piece of chain. Otherwise we would have missed out on the best part of the ride!
