Short amount of time available to me before a 1pm band practice. Parked in Bowenvale Ave and headed down the road and around and up the Major Aitken. Kept a pretty steady pace all the way, overtaking some dude (who I feel like I always see on Huntsbury), and up Kenmanure and on up Huntsbury to the top. Up the gravel, still a good pace, and up onto the singletrack, then the rest of the grovelly way to the top. Howling nor'wester on all the exposed parts.
Howling head wind across the Traverse, and then dropped into the fun jumpy trail down, wind nearly pushing me off and I definitely traveled sideways on the first jump. Easy roll down the landing strip and left into the groovy droppy down to the stile. Then on down, wind less of an issue, but really howling across these parts. Cleaned it all down and in the lower switchbacks the thistles are really bitey. Nasty fuckers just at the right height to spike the shins and forearms and knuckles.
Into the Old Skool, marginally slower on the headwind bits, and flowing across the tailwind bits. Nice bomb in the lower reaches, tho pretty cruisy, then dropped into the vallybottom track and rolled on out. Easy going roll down to the car.
A 10 km loop taking in 421 m of climb.
Howling head wind across the Traverse, and then dropped into the fun jumpy trail down, wind nearly pushing me off and I definitely traveled sideways on the first jump. Easy roll down the landing strip and left into the groovy droppy down to the stile. Then on down, wind less of an issue, but really howling across these parts. Cleaned it all down and in the lower switchbacks the thistles are really bitey. Nasty fuckers just at the right height to spike the shins and forearms and knuckles.
Into the Old Skool, marginally slower on the headwind bits, and flowing across the tailwind bits. Nice bomb in the lower reaches, tho pretty cruisy, then dropped into the vallybottom track and rolled on out. Easy going roll down to the car.
A 10 km loop taking in 421 m of climb.
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