I’ll take any excuse to ride MUni. Last week it was an easy ride on the Oakland Pump Track and the Big Trees loop in Joaquin Miller, with Kostya, Campbell, Ricardo and me on uni, Vicente, Jeronimo, and Nikolay on bike, and Maria on foot. A good time was had by all.
On Thanksgiving I was grateful to be back on the trails with Campbell, one of my rescuers from back in July. My first real MUni ride since then, and I was glad to feel physically pretty good, and my MUnitude rose from zero to…non-zero.
Hope you all had a good holiday.
We’re just a couple weeks from Moab, so it’s time to test our recovery abilities. After yesterday’s epic, we had a mellow ride in Joaquin Miller with some of the kids from our youth program, including Zeke on his awesome 16″ uni. A few hikers joined us, and we ran into Yu up there, and George missing a wheel.
We hit Joaquin Miller three days into the first real storm of the winter, and conditions were entirely flipped from last week; everything was soaked, and we lost traction not because of loose leaves but because of saturated soil. That was particularly fun in the chutes, which resulted in seriously muddy unicyclists. The rain didn’t
