endo city

Took the moutain bike out for the first technical ride this year. I'm always a bit reluctant to do this because I know that I will get banged up pretty good the first few rides. But I have an adventure race in 2 weeks, so I better get my skill level up.

So I'm on the 'warm up loop' - pretty flat, not technical and I'm about 15 minutes into the ride when my foot stops and my body keeps going. Apparently a vine had worked it's way across the trail during the winter months and wrapped my foot to the pedal so I couldn't even get my leg out. My knee swelled up and was black and blue almost instantly. But it was a nice day and I thought of Jim and how short life can be, so I decided to finish my ride and enjoy the day. In just 5 minutes the swelling had gone down and I barely felt any pain.

As I rode longer and was nearing the end of a 75minute ride, my confidence grew beyond my early season skill level, and I started to think about everything except the log paramid across the path, and as I came down the other side I did an end over (endo) and face planted into a ravine. Ouch!

Less than a minute later, as I was wondering how I made such a blunder, I did exactly the same thing! Ouch again!

Fortunately, I only have some scrapes and bruises. See how I feel tomorrow!

Overall a good training day. You only know when your pushing your limits when you fall occassionally!!