Putting things into order..............
Another early morning (kind of) ride. Heading out with a cold tail wind, made it a fairly fast ride over to Trappers. The first climb was acceptable, if not pretty good. One guy was ahead of me a good half mile when I started from the bottom. I reeled him in within the first mile, or so. With that pace, I kept him off my wheel enough that I didn't see him when I turned at Snowbasin road. The climb up to the basin was not nearly as fast, but still respectable. Coming back from the basin, heading back to MP1, I was caught and rolled by a little 110 pound rocket. I'm sure he saw me turn in from the basin as he was coming up from the old road, with the idea to put the hurt on me. I wasn't biting, as I still had nearly 7 miles of climbing ahead of me. If was only climbing out at MP1, I'd given it a shot, but.....
Dropping off into Mountain Green, that wind I had behind me 90 minutes earlier was behind me again. Going down hill was faster than normal, of course, but the immediate climb back had a pretty stiff headwind. Still, that climb wasn't too bad - just slower than I would have been otherwise. The overall time was still okay, mainly because there was no heat. The descent was a little sketchy with the headwind, that occasionally turned to a cross wind. All the way home was like climbing with the headwind. A few places where not as bad, but by the time I got on the last four mile climb, it was directly in my nose the entire way. Pretty tired, I was determined and finished with a little pride intact.
This ride was to meet two objectives: 1) get the south side of trappers out of my head 2) develop a little mental endurance. Believe it or not, mental endurance can quickly kill the physical endurance. Both objectives where met head-on today.
I'll take it.
Ride Hard!
