Been awhile...and alot of Ridin!!!

It's been aloooong time since my last posting and that is due to a couple reasons...foremost being the laptop has been acting up...where the power cord plugs in it is very loose so therefore it doesn't always charge...so I have to sit at home in the evening wiggling, jiggling, and forcing the darn thing to hit the "sweet" spot (sorry girls) to make it charge...well it's a royal pain in the ass...so i have been on it as little as possible...One way I have gotten my fix is with my new "crack" berry oh I mean Blackberry, but whew does it take time to type on...so Jennifer has given me her NEW laptop and she is going out tomorrow to buy herself another one....so tonight I'm getting my "fix on", no more "jones'in"...
now reason number 2...lots of ridin lately, have met a couple new guys and a couple of the older guys from the gang enjoy night riding as much as I do, so we've been out on the trails alot after work lately...and the past 3 weekends have been out at the Shed in Gambrills...it's been a ton of fun....thats what it's all about right, FUN!!!! Medically, at least this type of riding allows for many breaks and/or breaks whenever I want, (certainly not like racing), so I've been able to ride with out my heart "racing" ahead...:) or at least racing only for slight moments...
Todays ride at the shed was one of the best of all time...a new group of guys, exactly 13 of us, and still the same shed but from a whole new prospective...alot of the trails I've ridin out there over the last month are always the same ones, today the ride leader took us on most of the same trails but in different directions....man did it flow so much better this way...the shed is so great for practicing and learning technical skills...the group today liked to play in the real tech areas trying to get it down pat...I tried the boulder climb you see in the picture probably 5 times always falling over at the top until (as the picture shows) I made it...that was fun, instead of spending weeks only trying it each time you go out we spent time until most made the obsticle that gave them a hard time...we were out for 5.5 hours, what a beautiful day out too...one of the guys described the leaves on the tree as matching the colors of a Macintosh apple, perfect analogy...the fall time is so perfect for riding...need someone like Zach Adams who writes so philasophically (ms)to explain for us the beauty of fall.

On another very cool note....Jennifer has a new bike now...we got her a Gary Fisher Hi-Fi Deluxe GS (women specific) and its a very cool flat pink color...the bike is set up with some pretty good components...for those coming out to the Jamboree, you'll get to see it...she's going to try the VERY beginner ride, I'll join em too...we've been out a couple times on very easy "rail trails", and an average 10-12 miles, one ride I pulled our grandson in the little buddy cart, he had a blast, even fell asleep on our return trip, that was funny to see...I even took her out on a ride where we needed our lights, that was fun...

Lights to me are such a blast...it takes the same ole mondane trails that you've ridin 100 times over, that you can actually follow yesterday and the day before that and the day before thats...tire marks that you placed months before....and they somehow magically becaome trails you've never ridin'...the lights are bright enough to see the entire trail in front, but dark enough at your sides and when you glance behind that the riding experience to me becomes even easier...just recently we found a completely new trail we've never ridin, and it was just getting dark to top it off, wow what a downhill it was too, what a great feeling to have that surge of fear keeping you jacked up and ready for anything...thats the point right there about night riding...your senses are hightened, there at a level they usually are never at...you feel the trail and the variances of the terrain more than you ever have...it's kind of like how they say the blind become with there other senses...(how's that Zach)...

well everyone have a great week, keep the rubber side down, see a bunch of ya this Sunday...Ted if ya read this hope to c-ya too!!!

Ed