I’m gonna keep this one short, because I’m about ready to turn in for the night (yes, it’s only 9:30, but I’m camping, which means I’m sleepy as soon as the sun goes down).

Yesterday, Ryan and I were going to preride the entire 25 mile course loop, but ended up in a time vacuum, so we only rode half of it. From what I hear, the other half has some steeper sections. I’m not too worried- I’ll be walking some stuff already since I’m singlespeeding it.

Today, we spent what seemed like half the day on our bikes. We rode a local loop that took us out on Gold Run Road and back down to Breckenridge, where we made a side trip to the Breck pump track before heading back up the MUT to Frisco for some lunch. After filling up on Himalayan food, we made our way back to camp.

I have to say- I’m officially in love with my singlespeed. I guess if I can do the climbs around here at altitude and still love it that I must be a singlespeeder at heart. Time to go out and buy a tutu… or at least some more knee socks. Maybe some day I can get a cool new tattoo.

When we were almost back to the campground, I took a side trip on some random singletrack. Once I figured out that it was going up and away more than I’d hoped, we turned around. We passed a really cool rock outcropping, so I stopped to take in the view. Much to my surprise, there were some random guys down below doing a bit of bouldering. I had to give it a shot, so I took a side trail down to where they were, took off my shoes, and gave it a go…

Ryan told me I was nuts, but it wasn’t really that far off the ground. I wore my helmet, too, as you can see. I never realized that I had such nice calves…

Ryan took a lot of photos with his iPhone the last two days. In lieu of posting them all here, I’m going to just refer you to his blog: roadcx.net where you can see all of them (including shots from the trail, some food, the pump track, and more rocks)Â in gallery form.

Guess it’s time for bed. Gotta kick some butt tomorrow. Firm singlespeeder butt. Mmmmmm…