John was our trail guide for the first day, and it seems only fitting since he is the king, and the master, of the South Jemez trails, especially the loops out of Ponderosa!
So we rode a bunch of trails, I can't tell you the names or the numbers, but I do know we didn't do Bear Butt, and only a few of us did Over 40. John gets to tell us all that did that "I told you so!!!" because he told us there would be trees down and sure enough, there was 1 or 10 down. Alan decided that we were going to race that section, so it was a mad scramble each time we came across a downed tree to find a way arounc and not give up any ground. We were right together until about half way down, when on an off camber tree crossing I fell off my bike to the down hill side. Man, that sucks!!! I tried to put my foot down while I was straddling the tree with my front and back tires, but it was a good three feet from touching. So off I went. I got up pretty quick and just flat out lifted Ol Blue over the log, but by then I was so winded that I parked it and figured I would help the rest across. Well that was going good until Susie shows up and asks me to ride her bike across. I figured here is a good chance to show off a bit and get another shot at doing it right. No way, I crashed exactly, exactly the same way as I did the first time, plus I had to live with Susie telling me how I was nothing special and she didn't know why she had me ride her bike cuz she could have done that exact same thing!! Yeah right, she would probably of cleared it!!
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