No sessions lately. This spring has brought sporadic wind and weather so far...now it's really hot - like 34 degrees expected for tomorrow. However, it looks like some kind of system will disrupt things by the weekend...so maybe Sunday or Monday....stay tuned.
Might as well keep track of mountain bike outings here while I'm at it. Yesterday I got an early ride in (7am) at Kanata Lakes. I wasn't sure if I should bring Marlow or not, but he looked like he wanted to go. It was going to be a hot day, so it had to be an early ride for Marlow's sake anyway - he can't take the heat at all.
The trails were pretty quiet - got a glimpse of one other rider in the forest. I didn't feel as out-of-shape as I thought I would but I kept the drops to a minimum to go easy my recovering tennis elbow. Geez, my heart sank when I reached the outback trail near the railroad tracks...they're doing clear cutting there and it looks like a road may be going in. That sucks ass. At least for today the trail resumed on the other side of the clear cut but it looks like it's all slipping away into urban sprawl. We continued on but although I was having a good ride physically, Marlow wasn't doing that great - his spirit was in it, but he just couldn't keep up the pace -he mostly walked and the heat was getting to him already. He took a few dips in the swamps, but we had to call it quits.
Today Marlow was beat. He was pretty pokey on his morning walk...he's either just out of shape, affected too much by the hot weather or just plain getting old. His trail running days may be numbered..hope not!
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