Brought Loco Out Of Retirement

[Lise]

Nanci, you and Denise are my heroes. It is so cool that you find yourself so much stronger. And why not! Of course you are! But what a great demonstration. So, you mentioned photo op...share! Pix! L.

[KSH]

Awesome!

Sounds like you had FUN riding! Lots of people love riding road and moutain bikes... and it sounds like you are going to be one of those people!

Congrats on your accomplishment of getting stronger!

[maillotpois]

Excellent!! It must be so great to see your progress on the MTB. Yay!

[crazycanuck]

Welcome back to the OTHER side...*insert evil laugh*...I'm sending you subliminal messages to join the other side more often...make dirt your friend...your duallie needs dirt...

*Ahem* I had a momentary lapse of reasoning there...

Any way you'd do the gunbarrel challenge?? It's from laverton to Uluru (ayers rock).1000km.....http://www.gunbarrelchallenge.com/

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[tattiefritter]

MTBing is definitely much more fun when your fit! When I first started MTBing I was ready to chuck it in quite a few times. The climbs were so hard, then once I had gotten to the top I was too knackered to enjoy the descent! Road riding (commuting mainly) kicked my fitness up a hell of a lot and I grew to love it.

I find now that both types of riding feed each other: MTB for hills, intervals and bike handling and road for damn good fitness.

It would be criminal not to let the Loco out more often.

[DirtDiva]

So glad you've rediscovered your roots. It's fun, eh?

[Nanci]

My MTB friends were all accusing me of going over to the Dark Side. I think they were happy to see me back. The group leader of my road group, who organized the MTB ride, didn't even know I had a MTB! It was fun to ride around and say "I built that jump, I painted those signs, I brush-hogged this whole loop." At the end, there was a bike demo days thing (I avoided the Madone!) and a display of park volunteering, with a pic of me on a MTB trail.

While I was thrashing around in the shed trying to get Loco ready for the big outting, looking for the shock pump, (yeah, you should have seen me struggle to remember how to connect it!!!) I found a brand new pair of XT skewers (those are going on my GT MTB with city tires- he has a major skewer problem!!!) and a brand new unworn pair of gel gloves! Must have been some detail I didn't like about them years ago, and they got put away and forgotten. They seem fine now!

Nanci