Fitness, Fellowship, Faith
Fitness, Fellowship, Faith
What had happened was:
Pax that ride together, vibe together.
Another great turn out to off the chain- there is always a backstory to any story.
We continue the saga of the La Nino weather pattern that has soaked the eastern 2024 shred season. Last week we had an epic OTC sesh in the calm before the HELENE Hurricane.
A call to arms was announced across the regional mountain bike community to get chainsaws ready for clean up to return to magnificent flowy gnar. Locally, the entire cutty trail system was covered with a heavy blanket of trees, branches, and goo, 12 downed trees, and buckets of rain.
Hall Monitor, Mustard, Juice, and Rag sacrificed weekend morning and after work rituals and their own home honey do’s to knock off 90% of the storm recovery punch-list in time to avoid an OTC shut down. And thus Juice earned the flava flave service award this week – Mustard was runner up (awarded with a bee sting).
Rag lead the unsuspecting crew like an indigenous hunter corralling buffalo to the edge of a cliff, to the end of the trail where there was a washed out bridge.
Exercise ! In cadence! Jump into ditch! Lift ! 1 Lift! 2 Lift! 3!
So OTC once again lead the F3 nation, this time incorporating this unconventional impromptu gear work out, and accomplished what the Monday running workout could not! wink wink -Thanks BAX!
Workout continued by riding the rest of the way via snake (which was as clean as a baby’s butt – I hand raked myself thank you!) and lane change to 2 to avoid cooter sketch bridge, to the apex to recover.
Stretcher lead us down 1 to green mile where he aired supreme triple table, huck to flat, kicker, then up rocky road. We turned back to cutty to repeat climb 2 and then slam 4 over clavicle corner, over humpDhump, magnolia ditch gap to hi-hat stubby kicker.
We rolled back on cutty connector to attempt to fit in a lenny sesh. No real stream crossing casualties from the peanut butter slide, but had the rag approved maiden voyage Ziggy, the new green route of Lenny which is less of a punch to the face climb and more of a climbin up a ladder and you hear something splatter sorta vibe. We decended down waterfall, with stretcher demoing the stream gap downhill to a little gnar detour due to downed tree before pipe dejour sessions and the middle and right kickers.
Return to COT 2 minutes late.
Ricky Bobby lead us out with thoughts and prayers to our neighbors and friends impacted by the hurricane. Followed up by the last OTC bike repair – about 20 kids bikes repaired that will be going to the mountains.
Buffet got the stumpy award riding barefoot and without helmet.
Announcements
Keep eyes open for OTC bike repair- bratwurst has connected us to repair and fix bikes for a mission getting bikes in for donations to the Hurricane impacted NC mountain communities.
