Ass is officially kicked today. Best guesstimate to my ride after work today that took me from roads to a really wonderful, but completely technical trail ride in Portland that I never knew existed. Its a hard section of singletrack through pine forest and tidal flats with pedestrian bridges, slippery pine needle floors, unmarked dead ends, pine root steps, all out climbs that you have to be careful not to do a wheelie onto your back and suicidal descents down tree root steps. Beautiful, but Map My Ride doesn't correctly map it and my cyclometer doesn't work, so I can only guesstimate that it added all up to ten miles or so. I'm so sore now (but I feel great overall...) after two slow speed falls into a ditch and onto a root. I have a bruise on my elbow, shoulder, hip, cuts on my knee and a large welt, bruise and goose egg on my shin... all on my right hand side, courtesy of the clipless pedal that I cannot easily twist out of. Wonderful afternoon though!
http://trails.org/our-trails/fore-river-sanctuary/
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