Sunday Sep 24, 2006

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Went for a mountain bike ride yesterday. Kind of got my self in over my head." Wonder where this goes?"
I rode to work then up to Will Rogers and into the mountains from there. At the usual turning point I decided to see what was up ahead. I ended up on the fire road then dirt Mulholland, Mulholland then Sepulveda. Running out of water along the way. At a certain point I just wanted to get off. Finally got some water at the Nike site, long after oogyness hat set in.
On the fire road I rounded a sharp down hill bend and met a full grown male deer with big sharp pointy antlers, 3 points on each side. He let me get about 25 feet from him, then turned and hopped down the fire road. I followed him for about a quarter mile, about 20 feet behind him. I guesstimate he weighed 125 to 150lbs. I will admit that surprising him did generate some fear. He had horns and I had an empty water bottle.

Today my ass is sore and walking is somewhat difficult. whatever

What can I say let myself get out of shape. When I was in shape it would have been an average ride.
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scinge:
Gotta love getting in over yer head eh? I did the same thing pretty much the first thing after I got my bike a few months ago. I went out and tried to tackle a local trail, which as it turns out is reputed to be one of the hardest ones in the tri-state area and subsequently got burned the fuck out. I must have gotten lapped about ten times that first day by the hardcore riders. I did burn off about 3 pounds though...

And yeah, my body thanked me the next day!
suzy_kabloozy:
I don't know where "work" is or which Will Rogers you refer to, but everything I can think of would indicate this was one long ass ride. I guess it's nice to push yourself sometimes. Hope you recover soon.

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