Well…it seems to me that there is a rise in popularity of biking on the trails and that is not, to me, a good thing….let me tell you why with a couple of examples…just today, I was on one of the downhills with a blind corner in the middle of it and it is one of my favorite runs that has the 90 degree turn in it, which outlets to one of the bridges that leads to an uphill that has a water stop at the top….well…today when I came to the blind curve, there was a woman on a bike reading her phone mounted on her handlebars who was riding in the wrong lane…damn near ran over her and had to bail out onto the shoulder and damn near into a chain link fence…..then yesterday, on one of the downhills where I can normally coast for at least a quarter of a mile…the same place I saw the duck drop out of the air a few weeks back….there was a group of at least 15 of the spandex boys coming at me, not paying any attention and taking up the whole damn road to the point where I had to stop and wait for them..breaking my rule to never get off the bike….now, I appreciate why people want to ride…I do it every day just because I like it so much…and, it helps me to control my weight and stave of the effects of aging….but, damn, pay attention you idiots…you are not the only ones on the trail…okay, rant over…
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A little more trail weirdness….
Well…haven’t done one on trail weirdness in quite a while…thought I’d wait until it built up a while before reporting so I guess it’s time…what the heck are people doing with pregnancy test sticks on the trail? Saw another one today and that make 4 of them in the last 6 months…are they peeing on them on the trail? You would think that people would want to do that in the privacy of their own homes, wouldn’t you? Oh, well…saw the biggest herd of deer I’ve ever seen this morning…there must have bee 20 or so of them running right beside the trail and it was pretty cool to watch….what the heck is it with people with dogs when they have to take up the entire trail? Had to hold up behind more than a half dozen of them today and then they flip me off when I ask them to move over? But, it was a nice ride anyway and got the full 15 in today…first time into a full sweat in quite a while and it felt good…okay, that’s not weird so I guess I should stop here….