Tuesday Working(-out) From Home

Afternoon bit of exercise skiving off working from home... 

Headed up the usual way, road, 19th, skidder, grunter, Worm onto the Traverse.  Fucktonnes of people around, bloody 'lockdown bubble bursters' and I bet none were truly local... Across the Traverse, pulling over for various riders, mostly in ones or twos, tho one dad seemed to have about 4 or 5 teens in tow.  Pulled up and had a nice rest at the top of Huntsbury DH aka Fourpause.  

Dropped in, nor'wester pushing across-wise, jumping, flowing and pumping, on down, dropping over the edge towards Old Skool.  Into the steeps, dropping the first one and then around to the one I don't seem to be game on anymore, and I heard a shout from above.  "new track up here!" so pushed back up to there and chatted with the dude who had a couple of grubbers and was pushing in a new line from just above the first drop-over.  Nice.  Two other fellas pulled up, gave it a blast and then I followed after, reeling them in by the time I was down in the lower off cambers.  Anyway, new line is nice, back and forth a bit, a couple of nice dropovers, but nothing too hefty, and comes back in just at the bottom of the scary dropchute.  On down, catching the other two on Old Skool and then all of us catching up to a guy who was really struggling with the pressure on him.  I peeled left, up valley, at the end and the evil climbing began.  

Ugh.  Up Up Up, then up some more.  Tried out a little something below the 23 footer (texaco?) then kept climbing, passing a couple young'uns walking (one with a Zerode!), then at the 40 a woman came down shazz's and I caught up to her as she was walking up to Raceline crossing, greetings shared, I continued on and she headed down.  Looked like a very capable rider.  Up some more to Skidder and through this over to the usual sidler down to 19th, down the road, into the dog car park, peeling freely (no cars!), then turn turn, bomb bomb, down into the greeeaaasey oaks, then climb up onto road, up to microwave tower for the final blast down behind the houses, avoiding the wet spots quagmire, which resulted in not enough speed for any air.  Down to home, Mint.

Just under 12 kms, with just over 500 m climbed, not bad.