Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Trail work and riding

The last few weeks I've been extremely busy with trailwork and it has set my running and riding back a few weeks, not to worried since the weather been crappy but hopefully the weather will turn around and i could get a few more long rides in before my first race of the season Sylivan Island stampede on 4/19.

Now trying to juggle training and trailwork? I would say the last few weeks I've been pretty obsessed with trailwork, it started the first week of march when we got 4" inches of rain in two days and with the permafrost still in the ground it made for some pretty disasters consequences, we installed 8 new bridges at Black Partridge last September but didn't get them tied down before the ground froze so when the rain hit we got a massive flash flood and it moved a few of the bridges down stream a bit and took a few more way down stream(About a 1/4 Mile),so we've been putting those back in place but with some Major modifications.Some of the bridges started out as 20footers that now have been turned into 30footeers with a major rock pillar system i came up with to hold them in place. I told the wife that I would start keeping track of how much time I put in on trailwork projects by writing them in my blog so this is a start.

I write more tomorrow cause I'm having a hard time keeping my eye's open....

goodnight!