This morning I got up before sunrise and was headed up the road by 7:30 AM to meet a coaching client for a mountain bike ride at Gainesville College. Now, I realize most people get up and go to work at this time of morning every day, but my job this morning was to ride my bike in the woods -- nice job!
We had planned to practice the start of the upcoming race which begins across a big open grassy field, but this morning there was a high school cross country meet, and they occupied the entire field (I found out later that my nephew, Nathan, was there running his last race of the season for Dacula HS). No problem we did the power starts on the other side of the campus.
We also did a lap around the entire trail as a warm-up and I did another lap as a cool-down afterwards. My client, Tracy, is a 30 year old female mountain bike racer who happens to teach the mountain bike class at Gainesville College, so she knows that trail intimately. She rode smoothly while I found my trail skills were a bit rusty, she was careful not to make me look too bad though.
Posted by dancoy at October 23, 2004 01:31 PM