August Rides

[north woods gal]

Thanks for the update on Dickinson, Emily. Yup, that's what I feared. One of my factors in choosing a place to live was a stable population and economy. In my research, I specifically eliminated areas that either had a lot of population growth or that were losing population. Dickinson would have been a mistake for me.

Also, you did exactly what I would have done on those MTB trails. I can handle some of our local intermediate level trails, now, but only after riding and scouting them a bunch of times. Knowing the trail and what to expect is a BIG plus on being able to ride the trail. Just don't have enough of the daredevil in me to plunge into the unknown and probably a good thing, too, since I ride solo, so much.

Weather had been muggy, muggy and muggy and rainy, to boot. Mostly I've been clearing and making MTB trails on our property and some of the neighbor's (with permission). Plan to do lot's more, but already have enough for a good workout by doing laps. My goal is to have enough trail and variety to continue my learning, right at home, instead of trudging the MTBs over 4 miles of pavement to get to my local MTB trails. Hate pushing big heavy treaded MTB tires at low pressure over pavement, all the more so when I have excellent drop bar road bikes for pavement work.

Overall, then, not a lot of riding this week, but clearing and making trails is HEAVY physical labor, believe me. I'm exhausted at the end of the day.