No one wanted to ride SAT so off to Case I went Sat AM for a SOLO ride. I took the Specialized EPIC cause it has the studded tires on it. I planned to ride for 2 hours SAT in case Sunday was a rain out. I started off at the line street lot and found several fresh sets of tracks heading for the summit so I pushed hard hoping to join up with another group ride. At the summit I met three Guys and rode with them out the Blue down Chain ring they did a detour to the stunt trail then took Swamp + Fort out. The trails were 99% rideable with less than a inch of snow and very little ice. I could have ridden the Blur with regular tires as the other guys were all on regular tires. I bailed from that group after I climbed past the fort and retraced back the high steel bridge as I wanted my 2 hour ride. I met another group and rode up the Fern with them to the power lines were I turned around and went back down fern - to Swamp + Fort and out to car - 130 min ride , average HR for the first 90 Min's 150 - Average for the full ride 145 so YES I was pushing hard all day. NICE RIDE ........
Sunday I hooked up with a group ride out of Glastonbury @ 9:00 AM - We headed on some nice trails south of CASE I have never ridden - and eventually ended up crossing Hebron Ave at the 1/2 way point on the Tinty Trail. Conditions were getting damp as it was raining and wet snow falling, but we pushed on.. We rode down past the section that was logged out last year + around the res. - one of the ridders had a slip and got wet so we headed toward the low steel bridge and back Coop Saw Mill and climbed back up and again crossed Hebron Ave heading south back to the cars. It was 15-20 mins further -- with my ride Sat and the mushy snow + Mud sapping my energy bad I was very shot at the end of this ride.
Four solid hours of HARD MTN BIKE riding this weekend for me..
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