cycling (mountain) 1:38:00 [4]
(injured)
Kinda jammed in a bike ride after dinner which turned out to be absolutely fantastic. The first part, to Kingsmere, was the most technical which was good since we still had some daylight left. Noticed a huge improvement from the last time we did that trail. I think it was 20min compared to 35min! After a quick consultation with the map, we decided to go over to P7 and slug up the Penguin and then keep going over to Keogan. Took out our lights about 1km away from Keogan, but even then it was super hard to see anything flying down the hills. Almost went flying on one when I went off a big rock. Still, such an exhilarating feeling! The only downer was that my glasses kept fogging up so that it was like being half blind! Having my flashlight illuminate all of the vapour droplets definitely didn't help the matter either. Stopped to look out over all of Ottawa and Gatineau 1/2 way back down Penguin which was fabulous. All the millions of lights were twinkling from the heat coming off the asphalt and we could see the giant business building downtown all lit up. Quite an exciting ride down to P7 and we passed a guy going up with the brightest green light I have ever seen! Personally, I think it was a traffic light cause we were totally blinded, but he could probably see every bead of sweat on our foreheads! Took a few detours trying to get back to the Parkway by making a few wrong assumptions (the worst was: 'a road to Kingsmere can't possibly be called Swamp Road' we paid for that one by having to climb back up a monstrous hill that we had just flew down and realized that we hadn't gone up it on the was there a little too late). Beautiful ride down the parkway with the practically full moon and sky full of stars lighting up the road. Pretty much all downhill back to Pink Lake which made for excellent speed! Couldn't asked for a better nighttime ride, although it was my very first one. Found it a bit spooky on the trails in the woods, but other than that it was awesome!
Was a bit worried about my wrist and all of the bumping it would have to go through. So I duct taped it, and then wrapped it with a tensor bandage. Didn't feel it at all!!! Duct tape really is a miracle! :P
