Happy New Year from Ken, Cari and Jake!Well it is now 2007 and what better way to kick off the new year than to head out a long mountain bike ride with some old friends? That's exactly what I did on 1.1.07
Struggling to wake up and be at Annadel by 9:00AM, I found a lot of frost on the ground and a slight headache from the Jameson and coke from the new years eve celebration the night before. But no matter, I was heading to my new favorite place to ride (Annadel) and actually riding with Johnoss, my good friend whom I haven't had the pleasure of riding with in, oh, probably more than a year.
The drive over Trinity was really nice, there was a lot of ice on the road and the morning was really looking nice-clear and even kinda warm. I telephoned Johnoss to verify our rendevous and see who else was riding. He had two friends coming from CVC and Scot Nichol (Chuck Ibis himself) planning to join us. I haven't had the opportunity to ride with Scot since the Gourmet Century we put on in Napa many moons ago, and I knew he knew Sonoma riding better than anyone, so it was sure to be a great day!
We decided to do about 4 miles on the road to "warm-up" before hitting Lawndale Rd and the sweet, sweet single-track of Annadel. What a perfect day-we kept gushing about how awesome was it, here we were in the middle of winter and out on our bikes, in the sun. Well our ride went here and there, thoughout Annadel and all being said and done we spent almost 4 hours riding. Sweet doesn't even begin to describe the place. Imagine a narrow, winding singletrack where you're in your big ring spinning as fast as you can. Now picture good friends and you're almost there. Needless to say, it never fails that leaving the place with a smile and anticipation for the next visit is always on the platter.
Did I mention 4 hours of mountain biking? That's almost the sum total of my mtn riding for 2006. Needless to say on climbs I was the caboose-Scot is a beast, leading us by a long-shot and definitely showing the goods-I look forward to more adventures with the crew (just need to get on my bike a bit more in 07).
I'm also including some remnants from our Michigan Christmas. Had a great time out there (see Cari's blahg for more pics)—ended up returning with 6 large suitcases/duffels of presents-Jake is a certified Star Wars and Lego nut now...
Happy new year to everyone!
Our little Snow Man!
Jake and His Snow Walrus...
Frontin' on the cell while chattin' with YaYa
Jake is bowled over by the amount of luggage we brought home
Rest stop I: The marsh at Annadel...Scot's telling us how far we are going to ride
Crispy mud
Scot heading up and over the oak stump
Johnoss version of body english-more like spasm
Heading into a sweet oak forest downhill
Scot heading through the clump grass and oak section of our ride
1 comment:
That's a lot of luggage. Good thing you ditched it for the ride. Annadel looks like a fun place to ride!
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