Girl's Night

In the late fall, early winter we had a regular Wednesday night ride going on...called by some "the ladies pines ride", or some variation thereof. It was a small group of us girls, set up with helmet and bar lights, getting together to have a nice spin at a chat-easy pace. We didn't hammer...we didn't bow up and challenge the nightlife. We talked, caught up on eachothers' lives and enjoyed being out on the bike.

Resurrected it a bit last night by doing an easy, late afternoon/early evening ride with Beth. On Wednesday Beth and I had both beaten ourselves up a bit at East Macon. Beth because she's just clipped in and is going through the quite normal spills and chainring stabbings (her co-worker, and our riding friend, Karen told her to tell folks she'd been attacked by a bear and luckily she had her pepper spray, so got away) that come with those feet being attached to the pedals. I'd not fallen, but had done a brick annd probably should have stopped the run portion of the workout a half-mile to a full mile before I actually did. So we both wanted to spin and just loosen up (tight, slightly swollen knees for me, bruises and cuts for Beth).

Watch out for them bears...and always carry pepper spray!

It was a short, but fun ride. We didn't push it...just spun. The trail was fairly populated. We were suprised everyone wasn't out at East Macon getting final laps in before Sunday's race. My knees didn't feel any strain and Beth didn't re-open any of her scratches or the nasty big ouch she was sporting on her knee.

A happy Beth...nothing new to hurt her tonight!

As we headed out to the grassy road leading to the parking lot we came across six deer. That's right, six! Looked like four adults and two adolescents. My camera blew both shots I tried to take, so no photo evidence. But it was a really nice way to end a really nice ride. Looking forward to one of these each week. Sometimes you gotta ride just for the sake of riding, without any training guidelines or pre-race prep planning. Once again...it has to be fun.