cycling (mountain) 3:15:00 [2]
Weather really cleared up for the afternoon which made for great mountain biking although everything was still really really greasy!! Had to be really careful going over roots and rocks since just hitting one at the wrong angle would make your front tire go haywire and all of a sudden you'd be on the ground. Gave my knee a few shocks cause of that which was really painful since it's already really scraped up. Despite all of that, I had an amazing ride since I finally was be able to be totally concentrated and focused most of the time. It's such a great feeling to be able to get your bike to go exactly where you want it to go!! Even made it up some of the hills that my dad couldn't get up, and I could see a lot of improvement since the last time we did that route. Did the first part of the loop and then ducked into the trails that lead into the Triangle Ski Club although we did quite a bit of 'exploring' trying to find the chalet. Had to do a few tricky swamp crossing as well as one swamp jump twice since we had to turn around after hitting a dead end at a beaver dam. Also walked down some of the hills since we didn't have a death wish and it would've just been too dangerous and slippy to attempt. The sun actually came out for a little bit which was fabulous after raining cats and dogs all morning! Despite seeing everything drying up, we could actually feel everything start drying as well! After finally making our way out of the ski club, did a little jaunt down the road and came back out at the 4 corners where we'd just been about 2.5hrs ago! :P Lots and lots of puddles on the way cause of all the atv's ripping through there so we were uber muddy by the time we made it back out to the cottage road, which meant that we got to go swimming!! woohoo!!! holy macaroni it's was ice cold!!! and we had to jump in twice too; once to actually get wet, but then we had to make ourselves jump in a second time to wash the soap off! brutal! i think that i actually skipped the first step of hypothermia and went right to the part where all of the blood from your core goes out to the extremities so that all of a sudden you feel really warm. Fortunately though, we had a nice warm cottage to run back to, and I must say that it felt very refreshing all the same.
