PEDALING THROUGH PEANUT BUTTER
It's a term that Mark and I use when the trails get sloppy, muddy, mucky, or just all around difficult. It's a term I also use on the road when I have to ride straight into a head wind. "It's like pedaling through peanut butter!" I can remember a ride, probably back in '08 or '09, when Mark, Glenn, Mikey, and I went to Blue Marsh Lake on a January morning...a morning that was so damn cold we really had no good reason to be there. The temps were in the low teens when we started out. It was so cold that I couldn't talk....I mean it...my jaw was so frozen I couldn't form words! Funny thing about that day was, by the the time we were two-thirds of our way through the 30 mile loop, the temps had risen to a balmy 40 degrees. Those trails that were frozen solid at the beginning of our ride were now a melted muddy mess. There's no such thing as a bad mountain bike ride...but I look back on the end of that ride and all I can think of is that, f...