Race Against the Rain

Today's ride took place at Boyette. We got there around 12:30. It was super hot and humid. Our goal was to get a fun ride in before the afternoon rains. It didn't quite happen as we planned. We rode our normal trails, but added a couple new ones... like East Meadow, Woods Trail, Swamp Thing and Sidewinder. We ended up walking some parts of Swamp Thing and Sidewinder. The clay was very slick and a little too dangerous to ride on.

After that, the sky got really dark and we started to hear thunder. For some reason, I have this fear about being stuck in the woods during a thunderstorm. We pedaled super fast trying to race against the rain. We were about 2 miles away from the parking lot when it started to rain. I was forced to overcome my fear and actually the rain felt pretty awesome!!

Morris Bridge

Sunday-We headed to Morris Bridge to ride. It was the closest place to our house and we knew it wouldn't be muddy from the rains. It was an OK ride...we put in about 10 LONG miles. My sister complained a lot. She gets so bored on the flat trails. I guess, I'm the same way, it was a little boring.

Caspersen Beach

On Mother's Day we decided to head down to Caspersen Beach in Venice. I heard it was an awesome beach to find shark's teeth. We ended up finding lots of teeth... all from different kinds of sharks. The beach was really cool and the water was a pretty greenish blue color. The beach also had nature trails and a paved bike trail. Next time, I think we should bring the bikes.

This is my Dad looking for sharks teeth and check out some of the teeth we found.

***Check out my interview with Pua, it's at http://www.teammata.com/ (Keiki Team).

Camp Santos

We arrived at Santos in the afternoon and decided to check out the Vortex Section before setting up camp. My Dad's friend Larry rode with us this time. We started on Pine Tree, over to Marshmallow, then to Twister. Oh my gosh was Twister long and boring!! Some parts at the beginning were cool, but that was it. After finishing the trail, we were starving and ready to head back. We walked our bikes through Back Door, then passed the Free ride area. Larry and I took bunny back while Dad, Mom, and Kiki took Pine Tree. We had lunch and set up camp.

Our second ride was a lot more fun. We took Cow Bone down to the Red trails. We took a break while my Dad rode Ant Hill. The red trails are so much harder at Santos. The rocks really scare me. My Dad was right. He said if you fall on a red trail, your bleeding. If you fall on a blue trail, you will have a bad bruise. Over the weekend, we rode all of the blue trails and ended up riding about 32 miles including the pump track.

Almost made it through, not enough speed.

I do not like these rocks!!

Pump track and relaxing after a long day of riding

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