Yesterday I went for a mtb ride for the first time in months!! I've been using the mtb as an overpriced way to pull my son's tag-along, and focusing on road riding. After reading the miscellaneous ramblings thread, and being reminded there of the zen-here-and-now of mtbing, I determined that my once-a-week-whether-I-need-it-or-not ( I actually need it a lot more than that) ride would be on my beautiful, candy raspberry, tricked out mtb. And I was reminded of what I'm made of, where my passion is.

And as I was swooping around, bumping over rocks, looping here and there, the one thought that popped into my head was "I've got to share this with my new friends at TE!! They get it!!"

See, last fall, for family reasons, I moved from my hometown, the self-proclaimed Mtb Capital, to a city which is a hotbed of road cycling. Road cycling is nice and all, but I'm a mountain girl at heart, and my ride last night made me determined to make the extra effort, pack up the car every couple of weeks, to get to more single track around here. I may not get back to the actual mountains for a long while, but I can get out there on some trails and lump and bump and dip and swoop and let out a holler every now and then!!

Thanks gals!!