Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Too much work and not enough riding


I didn't manage to squeeze in any riding over the weekend which is a fairly rare occurence. The fact I didn't get on the bike is worrysome since I have Big Bear coming up in a couple weeks. Anyway, Friday night I decided to brew my first solo batch of homebrew. I wanted to brew it with spring water from the spring on Hamburg road so when I got home from happy hour I grabbed my water jug and headed for the mountains. By the time I got back home it was 9:30 or so. Not having any beer in the house I started drinking tequilla and after a buddy stopped by to help with the brew the drinking picked up a bit more. By the time we finished brewing and cleaning up it was 2:00am. The next morning I didn't even hear the alram clock that was set to wake me up for a 9:00 ride. I wasn't feeling so hot so I decided to spend the day taking care of house work that I had been wanting to get out of the way.


Sunday, MORE put on a trail work day at the Watershed. We hit up the area just north of Delauter Rd. A good portion of the trail was located in a steambed that floods during heavy rains. We did some reconstuctive work on the steambed and rerouted the trail in order to avoid the streambed. A good portion of our efforts were focused on keeping the water in the streambed and building a bridge over the streambed. The bridge probably wasn't necessary but it's kind of a neat feature and everyone really had fun working together to get the bridge built.


Today I did some additional trail work at the Shed with my buddy Dave, addressing and area in need of errosion control. I'm looking forward to getting back on the bike and hitting the trails instead of just working on them. Hopefully tomorrow I'll be putting tires to dirt at the Shed.