THE POTENTIAL DANGER WITH HERO DIRT

SO FUN TODAY.  I thought it would be a lot dryer, hadn't rained since Wednesday.  No puddles.  Definitely extra friction, that velcro feeling of...

... sticky lugs.

Hero dirt.

It's called hero dirt because we can carve the turns with confidence
just like our heroes.

Those tires aren't slippin',
they're grippin'.

The longer we ride it,
the more we lean and defy gravity.

The result?

Sometimes,
over confidence.

You know what comes with rain, right?

Ruts.

Towards the end of today's adventure, about 3 hours in, we were really feelin' it.

Laying down PRs.

Naturally, we'd need to hit the steepest,
and less well known trail...

... last.

What do they say about the last run?

Don't take it!

The segment is fittingly titled,
Dragon's Back Proper.

I'm not going to say it's the gnarliest trail ever,
still, there's a 0% chance I'm taking Surfergirl down it.

Anyway, with 30+ miles of hero dirt fresh in our minds we hit it.

Like any good friend, I neglected to tell Love Watts about what we'd face...

... knowing he'd be fine.

Butttt!, when we came around one of the turns which lead to a steep, straight shot of about 50 yards...

... there was a new and nifty rut straight down the middle of the trail.

Like a dragon, 
waiting to gobble our tires...

... and pitch us down its throat.

Here's the beauty of hero dirt...

... normally this would be a controlled skid section at best,
instead we were on the binders hard,
easily avoiding the doom...

... and snagging yet another PR.

Heroes for a day.

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163.8
8 hrs
No strength
10 minutes recovery 
60 minutes reading + Journaling