GF with GF (aka Greensfelder with Good Friends)

Saturday's ride was all about getting out for 3 hours on the bike and enjoying the weather. Put in some tough hill climbing efforts or some tempo paces, but also spend time with some friends on the trails enjoying the great weather and trail conditions. The gang was Denny Huebner, Greg Suter, and Loran Cavano. We were on the bikes and ready to roll at 8am and began by hitting the fireroad to the Declue trail. I had brought the singlespeed, which is a great choice at GF, as none of the hills are overly difficult (some a little more painful than others). Just a few pedal cranks into the ride, I could sense Greg was a little jealous of my single speed, so he attempted to convert his bike into one.



How in the heck that stick got into that position, I'll never know. We laughed while Greg performed the repair and the continued on down the fireroad. At the end of the fireroad, we took a right hander and rolled towards the connector trail and the Dogwood trail. Upon seeing a "No Parking at Any Time" sign, Denny and I decided to park and take a break.



After a fast, flowing ride on the Dogwood, we climbed out and picked up an individual, James, whom none of us knew, but were glad to have tag along with our group. We pedaled towards the fireroad again and this time flared off to the left and headed towards the "Valley of the Monkey Heads." Here Loran celebrates cleaning the first section of the "heads."



After the climb out of the Declue, we again headed for the Dogwood for another lap and climb out towards the cars. At times, the pace of the rides would go from slow and conversational to fast and race-ready. Not too much testosterone on the day, but at one point El Cavano decided it was time to take it up a notch and went flying by all of us so fast he was effectively a blur. I attempted to catch the frenzy pedal strokes and human machinery, but this was the best I could do. Man, this guy moves!!!



The overall time of our ride was 3 hours and while we did regroup from time to time on all of the trails, it was a perfect day with the bikes, the weather, the friends, and the camaraderie. Here are some other pics of out fun for the day: