The Marathon
I was supposed to be in Arizona this week doing the NOVA Norba Marathon race, but since it was cancelled (along with all the other marathons, I believe...go NORBA) and the XC is on Sunday this year, I did not go to Arizona.
Instead, I got up with plans to MTB in the dark. It took a while to get my lights and everything all set up, so by the time I was ready to leave it was almost 7 and I didn't really need the lights any more. Off they came, and off I went. Trails were pretty good, although I saw Ken Murdoch running who warned me upper Clarks was "super-muddy" so I avoided that. At the 1.5 hour point I was kind of sick of ridi
ng, mostly because it was cold and, while not dark, the sun wasn't above the mountains yet. Then the sun came out and I started feeling good. The morning was beautiful, and by the time I got home, I felt so good I decided to pull out the road bike and ride over Suncrest and up into Alpine past the rodeo. There I turned around and headed down down down, around the point and back to the house for an extra two hours. So, sort of a marathon, though not the pace I'd have done in a race. The picture here is from GoReedGo.com I'm surprisingly sore today.
ng, mostly because it was cold and, while not dark, the sun wasn't above the mountains yet. Then the sun came out and I started feeling good. The morning was beautiful, and by the time I got home, I felt so good I decided to pull out the road bike and ride over Suncrest and up into Alpine past the rodeo. There I turned around and headed down down down, around the point and back to the house for an extra two hours. So, sort of a marathon, though not the pace I'd have done in a race. The picture here is from GoReedGo.com I'm surprisingly sore today.
posted by MtbAllDay at Sunday, April 01, 2007
1 Comments:
You're amazing.
BTW, you need to read the third comment under Powder Keg.
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