Speed Kills?

Date: June 1 Sun
Mileage: 20 (C'Dale Caffeine)
June mileage: 20
Year to date: 618

Another great mountainbike ride on the Cherokee/Seneca loops. I'm just grooving on these trails of late. Insights to follow:

• Speed Thrills!! We've got lots of roots, rocks and logs here in the 'Ville, so the more speed the better to get over obstacles. I used to be scared of this kind of stuff (still am), but with some momentum I find that I clear so much more. The Lefty shock and 29" wheels help even more. The reviews for 29"-ers discuss that they work much better on larger frames; it's overkill on a medium frame like mine. That said, my riding has been transformed.
• Every time I trail ride and come home uninjured, it's a victory.
• I have no actual clue what my real mileage was, but I was out 1.5 hrs and certainly was in my VO2 max/LT much more than your average road ride.
• Neither I nor anybody else actually cares about the previous statement.
• I like it when riders pass me the opposite direction; it gives me a chance to pull over to be "courteous" when really I'm just sucking some more wind.
• Here are a couple comments about the C'dale Caffeine F-29er. (Stupid ass name if you ask me).
  
• I drove 'Z' to church tonight- that's 2 wasted miles of errand riding. I should've made him ride, but then I probably wouldn't gotten the chance to take my own ride.
• We wasted part of the afternoon watching Kill Bill v.1. It's unnecessary and violent, but it makes me laugh.
• We saw The Life Before her Eyes last night. I liked it, as did the wife, and was surprised when I saw how many negative reviews there were. It was interesting, at times well-shot, and had 2 excellent performances by Uma and the teenie Evan Rachel Wood. I find it strange that in 2 days we saw 2 movies with Uma Thurman, both of which express her grief over a lost child from the womb. Strange.
• My May mileage ended up being 138, with pretty much all that coming this past week after tennis and school were over.