Well….after getting out on the bike yesterday to mostly just wet trails with patches of snow and ice, I expected that they would be even better today…and at the start they were…but, as the temp started to fall, the slight dusting of snow that had started to melt refroze and black ice appeared all over the trail…so the mantra that I needed to keep repeating to myself was “pay attention…slow down and don’t lean the bike” about every thirty seconds…trying to rid myself of 8 months of warm riding habits is not as easy as it sounds since I rarely turn the handlebars and steer the bike by leaning it into the corners….on the fast downhill/uphill combination I even got the bike into a two wheel slide at over 20 mph and I can’t remember ever doing that before….after that, I really did pay a lot more attention and I did slow down…and got back here basically intact other than my hands and feet were damn near frozen since going slower left me out in the cold for an additional 15-20 minutes and that is enough to push me over the edge…but, I survived it…and I did go over 5,900 miles this morning…won’t make it to 6,000 but 5,900 isn’t bad….