smiling on a cloudy day

My daily commute has shifted from heading towards Brevard to going to Asheville. Instead of gazing out at Pisgah instead I get to gaze out at the smoke stacks at Long Shoals and the dinky Asheville skyline. Asheville is nowhere near Dupont so it took some creative scheduling for me to make it out to the WNDC. I had Carlos with me and we played my park the cooler of beer at Lake Imaging game. We were running late so a phone call was made and we met the others at the top of Reasonover.

What happens when you put a type a control freak and a contrarian together? We make a right onto Joanna when everyone else seemed to be headed straight for the beer. I still don't know my way around Dupont that well. Our route looked something like this but even with the help of my map I'm not sure what the right turn we made on Joanna was.

Lake Imaging > Buck Forest > Conservation > Lake Julia > Reasonover > Lake Julia > Camp Summit > Conservation > Airstrip > Shelter Rock > Barn > Conservation > Joanna > ??? > Joanna > Grassy Creek > Sandy > Tarklin Branch > Thomas Cemetery > Buck Forest > Issac Heath > Jim Branch

It was a fun ride and smiles were abundant. I'm seriously done trying to go fast or 'train' for anything for awhile. I'm just gonna ride my bike!





Yesterday I had to go to Penrose after work so I scooped up the dog and took him down with me. After we made the necessary work stop we headed to Pisgah and ran the North Slope real fast. It was sweltering hot and humid and I was glad I brought my margarita sports drink with me (I've seriously been experimenting with this. I've learned that I need more electrolytes and I seem to have stumbled onto something that just might work!). We ran the loop in the same time it would have taken to ride it. Hmmm....

Here's a pic Carlos took of me at the pmbar finish. I hope Toby looked as good.