Ok I have made it one week now with no cigarettes and i’m doing pretty good, my stress is a bit high but livable. So I was having trouble deciding to run or ride today so I waited till it was cool long about 7:00 pm and took Sam up to big springs. I had loaded the bike and my plan was to get up there and make my choice. It was sprinkling on the way up so I was thinking running would be the way to go but when I got up there it was nice and dry. So I pulled out the bike and set it up and got ready to roll.

There was a lot of people up there today, strange for the mid of the week, a few people putting there bikes together. I knew if I rode the 8k loop clockwise I wouldn’t see a person till around Big Springs. I haven’t been on the bike in over a week now and I could feel it on the dirt road up to the first big meadow. It was feeling pretty sticky and I stopped to check my tire pressure, they are about 5 pounds low but I let them go. It seemed to take me about 20 minutes to get into the peddle. I slipped out on the first little single track I climbed.

I got through the top gate and decided to take the climb up and over instead of taking the easy way down the road. I made it up over the climb without touching the ground and started to feel better, the downhill to the next meadow was a nice fast drop. Sam was doing her thing along the way chasing things but not killing them I hope! Before I knew it I was hitting the last uphill to Big Springs and I had already passed another female rider that I had seen at the base and was working my way past a large group of scattered hikers. I hit the top and dropped around to the campground and finished the loop and was heading down when I ran into the hikers again. The trail was full all the way down so I had to be careful and not hit anyone.

At the bottom I decided to take  a ride back up and cut across to the big meadow I had started with this added on about another 25 minutes putting me out just as the light was going down.