ACK! so i'm NOT a MTB-er

[caligurl]

actually... no... it was too hard even before that! from the time i fell over cuz of the rocks... i did a bit of walking... got back on some... got part way up a hill... THEN could finally ride.. then that little hill.. the whole area, once we got off the highway was way too rocky and way too hard for m!

i WAS however, haveing fun once we got onto the dirt roads again!

i think maybe KC wasn't thinking that i'd only had the MTB for a week.. and i've only ridden it 3-4 times before yesterday!

i DO think i will enjoy trails and fire roads... KC mentioned big bear and riding up there... telling hubby if i got bored with the fire roads that i could try some single tracks... but for now i would want them to be easy.. for a beginner!

i LOVED last week when i was out riding and riding in the desert vice on the road... going throught the washes... around the bushes (errrr.. throught the bushes even!) but that was all easier stuff! even the area across the street from our house.. uphill.. was FUN! it's rockier in some aread than others.. but not like yesterday! i kept going up.. coming down.. going up in another area.. coming down... had a BLAST!!!! (even fell over once.. laughed and got back up!) i was loving seeing how far up the hill i could go before i got stopped!

but yesterday.. no... i wasn't having fun... thus.. the little tantrum.. cuz i had already been thinking to myself "i don't want to do this.. i want to go home"... )

i need to ease into it more slowly! i may never do hard stuff.. and that's ok! (or at least that's what i keep telling myself!)

p.s.... i wasn't in the woods.. i live in the desert.. and we left the highway and were riding out in the desert... up into some hilly areas... with a LOT of rocks!!!!! i guess they do a lot of MTB/dirt bike stuff around there.. we were supposed to make a big look that went around and hooked back up with another road.. til i turned around and headed "home")