Just like I said before the Fall is the best time of the year. Leaves start to change colors and the weather spoils us with gorgeus sunshine and blue skies. Trails are in perfect shape and it's been so much fun to ride with different people. We are having some great riders here. Steve and Mark were Flying yesterday!        

     I had an amazing ride with the local ladies today at Luther Forest. It was a blast for me. We have a great group of women meeting every Wednesday in front of Blue Sky bike shop at 6pm to do the group road ride and it is a pleasure to join them from time to time whenever I can. Now that the racing season is over I will take advantage of as many social fun rides as I can.  This brings me to my last minute ladies mtb get together that I organized the night before.  With such short notice 8 girls showed up for what turned out to be a super fun saturday afternoon.   I know that for some of the girls it was a looooong time since their last mtb ride.  It was nice to see the support and even cheering for each other when there was difficult sections. Riding with women inspires me.  Riding with husbands and boyfriends is fine but women truly know how to encourage other women and it was so great to see everybody happy today getting a taste of my favorite thing to do: riding my bike in the woods:) 
   
     So after a long racing season racing all over the US and Canada on some of North Americas most technical terrain I made it thru the season pretty well keeping myself in one piece.  Great.  Until today when I was riding talking with Amanda not paying attention... Bam Smack right into a tree and whacked my knee.  So stupid.  Luckily we had a nurse on board who unbelievably had ice packs in her car.  Thank you, thank you Susan! Please come on all of these rides.  I'm feeling much better now.  Overall even with my big crash the day was a success and I'm looking forward to the next one.   

      Thanks to everyone that came and keep your mtb tuned up,        

             Aleksandra