LB put those back when you are done with them
Lunch Time
Rollout
Seneca Rocks looks so small
New Whip
Chuck ready for North Fork
The days have defenitely flown by since my last post. I kinda expected them to. Finished up with school and finally graduated after 8 years of college. Yeah its official I'm Dr. David now. I still have to take my boards before I'm a bonafide pharmacist but they are coming up in June.
Riding has been hit or miss lately. After waiting almost 3 weeks for my replacement bike in April I really went downhill on my fitness. Did a big ride with Chuck up at big bear on the big hit during the wvmba race. Ended up pushing the 45 pound tank around for 25 miles and ended up with more miles on cooler trails than what the race went on.
May brought the Massanutten DH weekend. This was the 3rd year that I've went down to this race and every year i never do well. This year was no exception as i finished 19th in the cat 1 (expert) field. No wrecks no major bobbles just really didn't feel fast. The race was on Saturday so Chuck and I drove back to seneca on saturday night and rode north fork trail on sunday. This was the first time I have rode this trail with a shuttle. Normally it is ablut a 70 mile loop but with the shuttle it only ended up being 25 miles. The special part about the ride was that it was my new top fuels first ride in the woods. It was awesome. I really like it, it rides smooth, climbs well, decends well, and just feels fast on the trail.
This past week I was able to get some more rides in with a couple road rides, then an epic weekend. Friday was a 50 mile road ride around fairmont, Saturday met up with juan martenilli down at snowshoe for some DH riding, Sunday was the 45 mile spruce ride with the night clubbers and mike boyes, and monday was a 70 mile road ride with the fairmont flyers.
Snowshoe was awesome and riding fast. Hit all of the regular rock hucks but skipped out on the road gap for this trip. It's still a little early for me. Spruce was rocking literally. Rolled out of seneca creek unknowing that the next regrouping would be nearly at the top of spruce. A huge group of hardtail singlespeeders then there's mike and i rolling with gears and full suspension rigs. Headed out the usual lower timber and up to spruce. Lunch then rocking down huckleberry down to the falls. Hike a bike back to the top, then some more ridge line and bomber downhill back to the finish. I am totally digging my new bike now. It was awesome on this ride. It felt great through all of the huckleberry rock gardens and i rode a couple steeps that I have never rode before. So the 3 mtb rides on the new bike so far have been North fork mtn, Big bear, and huckleberry and its still holding together!
I'm down at Panama City Fl now hanging out with Amber and my brother and his family. It is a much needed weeks vacation, but its back to fairmont on monday.
