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[liberty]

The clinic was great! Two days afterwards and I am still sore.

I found out my bike fits me pretty well. Just a few minor repairs I need to have done. When we were practicing on a few trails I found I couldn't shift from my easy gears. So I had some good practice spinning.

I don't have the money for clipless pedals right now, so I did the clinic in tennis shoes. Actually, it was fine with those; but my legs are TIRED from having to grip the pedals for the hops. I was able to do just about everything except the endo drills. Never could get that one to work.

We learned out to bunny hop, pop up the front tire, pop up the back tire, rachet the pedals, hover over the saddle, weave between poles, do switchbacks, how to handle the bike to avoid endos (which I stunk at), how to go very slowly... I won a preliminary round in the slowest rider contest, but was eliminated in the finals.

The latter part of Sunday we went for some rides on the trails. It was a blast. Ascending and descending practice. The last trail I went on was mainly gravel. That was a pain in the patooty. Would like to be able to handle the bike better before I descend that fast on gravel again. Some guy came flying up behind me and was sliding all over the place. Not fun to feel pressure from him to go faster or wonder if he was out of control and gonna run into me.

My cousin did great! She has only been on a bike for a week now, so she definitely has thrown herself into cycling. I am very proud of her. She borrowed my brother's cheap $89 bike, so I figure she did three times the work the rest of us did.

bike4ever- thanks for all the help. Put me on the list for future bike events and rides!

-Jenny

[bike4ever]

Liberty (Jenny) did a terrific job. Her cousin was an amazing inspiration to us all for having such limited ride time and completing the tasks that we were doing.

Jenny - thanks for coming. We'll definitely have to ride more.

Traci

[fatbottomedgurl]

I can teach you how to endo...heh heh heh.