{"id":437,"date":"2009-08-04T18:47:29","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T02:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/?p=437"},"modified":"2009-08-04T18:47:29","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T02:47:29","slug":"long-time-no-see-or-funk-busting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/?p=437","title":{"rendered":"Long Time No See! or “Funk Busting”"},"content":{"rendered":"

So there has not been too much on the MTB scene that I have felt like writing about\u00a0since I got back from Japan.\u00a0 That does not mean that I have not been riding.\u00a0 I just did not seem too inspired to write about it.\u00a0\u00a0 I have gotten in a couple of quick spins\u00a0through Lake Calvera on my singlespeed and even caught the SDMBA San Clemente Singletracks Ride.\u00a0 These rides while fun where just not doing it for me on the\u00a0trail scene.\u00a0\u00a0 I have noticed I get like this for a week or two after epic riding trips.\u00a0\u00a0 I have come to think of it\u00a0as “Post Killer Trip Depression” or “Epic Lag”.\u00a0 Pick whatever shrink-babble works for you but I was coming off some awesome\u00a0trail riding and was looking for some new dirt\u00a0 to ride in SoCal.<\/p>\n

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I had not ridden with Bill O’Neil in freaking ages.\u00a0 Well maybe not ages but\u00a0nine months is\u00a0a pretty long time.\u00a0\u00a0He\u00a0busted up his wrist really\u00a0bad late last year<\/a> and had to deal with a long recovery.\u00a0 Combined with my traveling schedule earlier this year and\u00a0the better part of a year just slipped by.\u00a0\u00a0It was time to kick this “Epic Lag” in the ass and catchup with\u00a0Bill\u00a0on some singletrack.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The person who organized this ride thinks it is best to keep the names of these trails “off-the-air” so I’ll leave things as that.\u00a0\u00a0While you\u00a0may find these trail\u00a0segments on most of the older topographic maps\u00a0of the San Bernardino National Forest,\u00a0you\u00a0will have\u00a0to be a little adventurous to ride\u00a0some of these bits.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The rewards were certainly there and it was just what I needed to bust out of\u00a0the Post Epic Funk.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The trail was just what I had expected, fairly buff and flowing.\u00a0 One thing I had not realized was that I had been missing the continuous moving that is so much easier to do back here in SoCal.\u00a0 The steepness of the terrain in the area of Japan I was in often meant that your\u00a0riding mileage was often broken up by short\u00a0hike-a-bike sections.\u00a0 It was pretty awesome to just be able to “go”.\u00a0\u00a0 At the same time these trails\u00a0revealed my fitness level for the continuous “go” has been dropping off.\u00a0 Way to many rides of stopping to navigate and take\u00a0pictures.\u00a0 I suppose there are far much worse ways to get out of shape \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Ultimately we knocked off a good chunk of mileage on some pretty cool trails.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0We even had time to stop and smell the flowers. \u00a0It is always refreshing to get on the\u00a0trail less ridden and try something new.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Doing it while catching up with friends is a nice bonus.\u00a0 Oh yeah, there was tasty microbrews waiting in the cooler at the end of the ride.<\/p>\n

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