Tomorrow I will be biking to school as well. Tonight I'll figure out what bag I'll be taking, pack everything up, put a blinky on the bag and I'll be good to go. Let's just hope I get up early enough... well I GET UP early enough on a regular morning, let's hope I get my ass in gear fast enough to make this happen.
Yesterday we had a presentation for the juniors and their parents about college... at 7pm. School ends at 2:30 and traffic to and from Boston between those times is horrendous, so what to do? Ride of course!!
I hit up Foxboro as I figured trails would be wet and there is enough interesting fire roads to keep me busy there. On the drive in I peeked through the woods things were looking pretty dry... is that possible? I didn't really want to risk the increased chance of a crash with wet roots and rocks on the tight twisting singletrack since I had to be back at school for the presentation so I figured I'd still stick with the fire road route anyway. That lasted about a mile. Things were looking way too good to pass up. The trails had an amazing tackiness and the roots and rocks were damp - but not enough to induce any serious slickness.
At the start of the ride my legs felt dead... something about hitting it hard for a few days and then resting too long just kills me. Before too long my legs joined the game and I was flying along the trails. With the singletrack being available I rode to get lost - no route in mind. And it turned out to be a pretty sweet ride. I ended up double back on a couple trails but it was fun.
All around great ride, well, minus the humidity which left me completely drenched as I got back to the pterodactyl. Showering in a high school locker room... I cringed at the thought of getting a wonderful case of foot fungus from the shower, but an entire can of axe wasn't going to do the job - nor would I want it to.
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