My Vulture SS
I got out for just under an hour of fine April singletrack today. I am reminded what a little bit of fitness does to improve your riding. Today was a small payoff of sorts for the slavery I’ve endured on the stationary bike and stair mastah this spring.
It was dreamy. So many riders, more than I’ve ever seen in summer or fall. Not sure whether it was collective spring fever or what, but folk were out. Lots of mechanicals and flats and all of us trying to help each other but not having good glue in the patch kit or a second extra tube…those things you always have in droves by mid-summer. Ah, the rites of spring.
I was doing laps with two quick grunts and on the the fourth lap just got knackered. As CuJo said, getting wonked on your single speed is a great way to start the year…why ease into it, that just prolongs the suffering. Go right for the single speed specific fitness, screw the road bike and the fixie and all that:
- TRAIL
- SINGLE SPEED
- RIDE
- BREATHE
- SWEAT
Simple? Yes.
Rock on and over and out.
G