Castlewood VI.

Reflection
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Lisa ditched us. Hope you enjoyed your "drive", Brown. OK, just kidding.

Today Carrie and I worked on putting together pieces I haven't been able to get. We both made it up the nasty root section at the bottom of Grotpeter; but I couldn't hang on to clear the rock/roots on the other side. I also choked on the switchback on the climb back up. I bounced up the bottom of Cardiac and didn't make it up to my current "best" past the railroad tie. Carrie's got video of me laming up and quitting. Ugh.

We took a trail we'd never tried (the Parking Lot Cutoff) on Grotpeter. Turns out it comes out on a story of steep, weirdly spaced, railroad tie steps. Surprising, but fun and ridable. A nice quick little trail if you're looking to do hill repeats of the Grotpeter "step" section...

Later, we road our fixed gears for an hour and visited PJ and Joe (other avid cyclists). I won two out of the three "city limit sprints"; but to be fair we really only raced to one sign (and I forgot I was on a fixed gear and almost bit it as I tried to coast post-sprint--duh!).

Blah, blah, blah.
Tired legs, and according to my heart rate monitor , I burned 2348 calories (which I quickly made up with soup, quesadillas, chili and hot dog, chocolate peanut butter sandwich cookies, a few bites of a frozen waffle, ritz crackers and pretzels).