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<\/p>\nThis past week was such that I could get out a little more often but for not as long.\u00a0 They were the kind of windows that you don’t want to burn up too much of your time driving far to get to, you know, maximize your time on the trail and minimize your time on the road.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0Monday was a spin through the Black Mountain Open Space Preserve<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 I started off on the east side of the preserve and did some tough climbing and a bit of hike-a-biking to get up onto the East Ridge.\u00a0 From there I did a sizeable loop that had me pretty pooped by the end of the ride<\/p>\n \u00a0The loop included the \u00a0Miner’s Ridge and Liliac Canyon trails as well as the service road up to the peak and some more trails back over and down the East Ridge.<\/p>\n \u00a0Wednesday evening was the monthly San Diego Mountain Biking Association (SDBMA) advocacy meeting so a group of us met up and did the La Costa <\/a>trails prior to the meeting.<\/p>\n \u00a0I was able to get out a couple of hours before the rest of the usual suspects so I did a couple of loops out there before the group ride.\u00a0 I was feeling pretty worked by the time I finished up the last loop.<\/p>\n Friday afternoon after work I squeaked in spin out in Santee near Mission Trails <\/a>and Sycamore Canyon<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Normally I am a stop and smell the flowers kind of guy but I have to admit that I somewhat enjoyed the pressure of having to be somewhere later and the “push” it forced me to do on the trail.\u00a0\u00a0 Charge a hill here, push a harder gear there and general keep the engine rev’d higher than I normall would.\u00a0 It was a short ride that ended up feeling longer on fatique and quad burn at the end.<\/p>\n The weekend was pretty awesome as well, but it did include any biking.\u00a0\u00a0 Hockey and quality time with boys were the story of the weekend.\u00a0 I took them to thier first concert Saturday night which was simply epic.\u00a0 Rush on thier Time Machine Tour.\u00a0\u00a0 I have had a lifetime of missing Rush shows and this was my first time seeing them as well.\u00a0 They blew the place down and both the boys and I were completely stoked.\u00a0\u00a0It was a good way to finish off the week.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/a99665975219281f453b4a9dd22bcf1e.jpg?resize=840%2C560\")
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