Sunday, December 04, 2005

MTB in Nashville

Today Dan and Josh Prater came down and we went over to the Brown County Sate Park to ride MTB's. It was cold, below freezing, and the low parts were muddy, but the rest of the course was frozen. It's a great trail. It has some good climbs and long descents. It has non-Indiana type climbs. Typically, IN climbs are short and steep, but the climbs at BCSP are longer and more gradual. Then the downhills are longer and more technical. It has the makings of a great race track. We got off the loop to do a 2 mile climb that empties into a gravel parking lot, then turned around and went back down it. It was a killer climb, super hard in the winter. You overheat easy due to all of the clothing you're wearing, then you start sweating a bunch, which makes you wet, which makes you even colder. It sucks. Anyway, we hit 30mph on the way down that hill. That's smoking on a MTB. On all of the climbs my (Oakley) glasses totally fogged over and I couldn't see a thing. I had to take them off and stick them in the back neck collar of my jersey because they wouldn't stay in the vent of my helemt. Dumpster glasses anyway.
We rode for just under 2hrs, and my recently overhauled MTB is totally covered in mud. Looks like it's to the carwash for it, then another o'haul w/ Rock -n- Roll grease(s).
We got Jiffy Treat burritos after we got back to B-Town and that's about it.

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