Yesterday was our monthly "Social at Thomson Trails" and it was a great time with some awesome people once again. We did have to help one of our members, Kat, get up from the trail when she went over the bar on a downhill. She'll be very stiff this morning, Kat was already that way immediately after her fall, but I'm sure she'll be blazing the trails again in a few days. Kat did earn her inclusion into the "Team Flipper" club and got the official stem sticker from Flipper himself ~ Jesse. Jesse tends to perform gravity checks at various times on the local trails and has earned that nickname for his efforts. Through Flipper's scientific analysis, we are assured gravity is still functioning at normal parameters in our geographic area. Hooray!!
I remember Don Bill, aka GoFastPops http://gofastpops.blogspot.com/, inviting my wife and I to come out to the trails to check out mountain biking. Don affectionately referred to MTB as "The Dark Side" since it is the difference of night and day compared to road biking. I agree. I'm guilty of the same mentality of clipping in to my Madone, looking around at the other cyclists to see who is gonna be my "wind-bitch" to draft behind, and also calculate how and when I want to attack during the ride. If I were discussing an actual race here, it would be acceptable somewhat. But, for club rides it is a testosterone/pissing contest that ends when we un-clip from our bikes and there is no so called social aspect to hammering all the time. At the trails, it is a much different story. Very social people before, during, and after the rides. After the ride, we compare our battle wounds from the ride that day and usually toast our survival with various adult beverages consisting of malt, barely, hops which are not associated with the Southern standard of Budweiser and its horse piss siblings. Great people, great brew, and great food can only result in great times had by all.
The current situation in the Tour-DAY-France makes my stomach turn seeing the cheats and dopers get sent home due to positive tests or the simple insinuation from sour grapes. Life is such, but it won't make me love my sport any less. It makes it hard to get motorists to respect our position on the highways, however, and I hope the future is much brighter for cycling.
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