Training Log Archive: xcsnowskier14

Got to ride a little bit more of berryman after yesterdays debacle. I will agree with the guys, this was a sweet place to ride, but nothing compared to syllamo or womble.

Mix of biking and walking. Today was probably the most frustrating day I have ever had biking. We started at berryman and rode for about 1.5 hours and I slice my tire, meaning I get to walk back to the campsite to fix it. I find a shorter way back, but it was still about 2 hrs of walking. I get back fix the flat and head on the loop backwards to see if I can catch the guys. 2 miles out I realize I have a slow leak in the tube I just replaced, so I get to go back to the campsite again. I fixed the tube and head out backwards again. This time I make it 1 mile and my chain breaks. I just gave up at that point and called it quits. Very very frustrating.

Second day at Syllamo. We started straight from our campground and got on the trails. Headed back to the trailhead at the top of the mountain and tried to ride the red trail. It was pretty flat and boring so we cut back onto the road to get to the yellow trail which was much better. Finished it up by riding up a very steep and pretty technical hill for about 15 min straight, and then turned around and went right back down. Tons of fun!

First day at syllamo. This was byfar my favorite area that we biked at. The trails varied so much from place to place it was amazing. At one point it would be just rocks every where, then there would be a pine forest, then a open plain area, then cliffs, and just everything! There was a lot of really technical stuff that even kasey and mason didn't even try to attempt. We were on the trails for about 5.5 hrs before we got back to a road and got lost for another 2 hrs on that before we got back to our trailhead. All in all an epic ride with a great group of friends!

Bike today was great. We biked at burns park in Little Rock today. It was a pretty sweet place to ride. It was pretty wet tonight because of the rain last night. They had a pretty sweet bmx track, but we weren't able to ride it because it was muddy. We ran into an area of the trails that kinda dead ended in a bayou...that didn't stop us though!!! Hands and butt were a little bit sore today.