Loggin' and rollin'

So I didn't have any burritos this weekend, but atleast the rain didn't impede our bike riding. We did stay home saturday (it was windy and threatening outside)...and cleaned the apartment. This was a necessity as it's no fun to let a small apartment get any more than a little cluttered. We made it to the trails yesterday though. Branford again. The first time we went here it was uneventful, but upon further exploration we found a mecca of trails hiding just beyond a hill we weren't sure was actually part of the trail network. YES! SCORE! I like these trails for their mix of simplicity, and technicality. I'm the kind of person that needs a good confidence builder sprint at the beginning of the ride. Something that kick starts my adrenaline and momentum, and yields a lot of "woo hoos" along the way. A few strategically places logs and rocks, just enough to really get me excited for those hills and drops. I like exploring new trails, but when we check out places that are brutally technical, it's hard to get started and I spend the whole day trying to find my momentum. It takes the wind out of my sails no matter how gung-ho I am that day. I like trying new trails, even difficult ones, but when you're still trying to build up muscle and endurance, spending more time off my bike than on it is a little frustrating. I'm trying to remedy this though...even if it means just crusing around the parking lot a little to get myself psyched up, or crusing on the road after to get a little post trail-walking work-out. Next Sunday will be a day I'll need to do that. It's a Westwoods day. Westwoods isn't really brutally technical, but there's a lot of stunts that I won't go near, which makes for an extensive sometimes on, sometimes off the bike ride. I've only gone with Jake and Sundays ride is with the bike store owners and their group. They say it's a slow ride because they all stop and do stunts the whole time. I'm thinking of it as more of a show than a ride. Ride a little, watch someone jump off a rediculously high rock (some of the guys are trials riders). Ride a little more, walk down a 50 foot rocky crag (westwoods has some insane rocks...it amazes me that people ride down them). All these guys wear pads and face shields, so I'll certainly feel more like a spectator with only helmet protection. It should be a very interesting ride (err, walk).