Mountain Bike Ride

On Friday, I know I should have posted this over the weekend, I took the mountain bike out for a little spin. I keep it a work for just the sort of "Get the hell outta Dodge" workout I needed at that day.

Out the back of my office is a really great mountain bike area. In fact I was able to follow the course of a mountain bike tri that was coming up. Talk about a hard course. While most of it was not very technical there was one sick joke of a uphill hairpin that I just can't imagine a lot of people negotiating without getting off and walking through it. There was no one around and I walked through it.

There is a really nice hill that I took and then changed gears and suspension settings to see what worked best, hard or soft. I think softer won out, as the times I did it harder the back end kept coming up because I was leaning to far over the front bars.

I was only out for 45 minutes but man was my cardio kicked. I was probably anaerobic for a good deal of it which is not what I wanted but what I got.

I will probably get into that course a few more times this week as I am doing the sponsor companies third mountain bike triathlon of the season as my next tri race which is the last week of July.