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<\/a><\/p>\nI have several more pictures of the family, but my mom hates pictures of herself, and she’s in most of them.<\/p>\n
My cousin Brent, who is closest to my age of all my cousins, bought his five year old daughter one of the greatest presents in the history of “presents for 5 year old girls”…<\/p>\n
She rides it by herself (with the speed governor turned down, of course).<\/p>\n Speaking of presents, Matt put Ronda Rousey on the wall over my workbench. Now I flinch every time I walk through the garage.<\/p>\n Thursday, Ryan and I left for the cabin. We made it in time to get in a short ride and to start on a stack of puzzles- my new favorite thing to do at the cabin besides ride, eat catfish, and watch procedural crime dramas.<\/p>\n Saturday morning, we had breakfast at Rainbow cafe in downtown Mountain View.<\/p>\n Some sort of animal hid its breakfast corn from the deer feeder in the bathroom light cover.<\/p>\n Saturday, I kept having an odd pain on the upper left-middle area\u00a0of my back and a corresponding spot\u00a0in my ribs on the front of my torso. It nagged at me all morning before I realized it was shingles. I had a full-blown case back at Breck Epic a couple of years ago, and they still periodically hurt from time to time. This was aching bad enough that I was worried that it was going to go full bore. Luckily, the pain subsided in a couple of days.<\/p>\n That day, it had rained, so\u00a0we stuck to forest roads. I wanted to try and ride to the Sugarloaf Mountain Lookout (upper right corner of the map), but the “back way” in that didn’t involve riding a large stretch of Highway 5 was gated off with “private property” signs.<\/p>\n Sunday night, we went to Tommy’s Famous Pizza with my dad.<\/p>\n When the sky is clear, one of my favorite things to do is sit on the porch and have a glass of wine while the sun sets. It’s a nice opportunity to reflect and enjoy the mountains.<\/p>\n It’s cold out right now (daytime highs have been in the 35-40 range with 70-90% humidity). I didn’t take riding photos while we were out because stopping is a surefire way to get chilled with a quickness. Since a lot of you don’t ride these trails all the time, it’s probably not really interesting for me to list a bunch of trail names (if you’re interested in routes, you can look at my Strava account<\/a>). This is also a relatively “serious” time for training. Less sightseeing, more steadiness.<\/p>\n …and, more puzzles.<\/p>\n Here’s my one ride pic:<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n