While we’ve committed to a regular three-day ride schedule (Tue., Thu., and Sat. mornings), we’ve often added a fourth day. We decided to add Monday as a regular fourth day to our schedule. Today was our first day with the new schedule.
Alex, Steve, KC and I met up at the regular 7am start time to ride Waterdog, but we rode it backwards. It was a nice change of pace, and gave us a chance to see the trail in a new way. Riding it in reverse like this also added quite a bit of climbing to the ride, which was a nice bit of exercise. We climbed up 13 Switchbacks Trail, adding some nice technical climbing, as opposed to the mostly fireroad climbs we do going the normal direction. It was a good day.
Anyone who wants to join up with us is welcome. I’m happy to say that we’ve got a solid regular group, which makes riding much easier since most of us would probably stay in bed a lot of mornings if it weren’t for the rest of the group. We’ve all gotten into reasonably good shape (I’ve personally lost almost 20 pounds) on top of having fun starting the day in a beautiful setting.