I rode the other day. It was aweosme. I wont bore you with the details. But what I do want to share is the moement…
I had to call people after I was done. Those times when you just feel something in your life, in your person or on a bike! The moments that add up to our entire life experience; not our holdings, not our education and not our collection of feathers in our hats. Nope; what it’s all about, is these moments!
I was riding Zippety; ny riding partners had more time than I and I was returning to the car as they pressed on. A group of folks was ahead of me and I waited a minute because all I had left was the little stretch from Zip over to the parking lot. A smal section that isnt much unless you like jumps; in a half mile there are a few and one that is huge! I waited and when I had a gap I rolled out knowing I would want ot sky over the big jump. its fun! I hopped over the early little jumps and then lined up for the good one. I had good speed and I lined up right to left becasue I know when you hit it big you tend ot go too fara right (and you know we keep our singletrack siingle and are not seeking wider traials) so my line was ready, speed good and I floated off the thing. Now its always amazed me how fast your mind can reason out things, the spped with whcich we process thoughts and ideas is utterly amazing and lays to waste all the â€serious thinking†we think we do with our intellectual mind. So as I leave the earth, some 5 feet up in he air above the trail and some 30 feet above the valley ahead… I think†â€lines good but your flyin’  â€look out your headed way right  hey, do you think you have enough speed to ge the other one? You see I failed to mention that there is actually another super big peak that has been jumped on rare special occasions. It hard to have enough speed to jump at all and never seems to have room to really sky it, but in this case, in this â€moment†I had a bit fo speed…
I didnt sly it, its too much to ask and ruins a moment to exagerate it. But I had enough momentum to hit the rocky summit and catch air up and over the top. What makes that jump so cool is that once you summit this peak you are looking some 40 feet down to the trail and right across to your parked car in the Bookcliffs Lot; when you crest it in the air, it feels really cool and a bit Bigger than it really is. As I came off the top at warp speed there was a last rider in the group ahead slowly approaching the cattle guard at the bottom some 50 feet below. She abviously heard me and panic set in at the sound of the speed behind here. It was never really close and I was imediatly saying â€your fine, dont worry. your OKâ€. But in way I was just excited to have a person who with their back turned even, shared in my moment.
It was a great feeling of little importance to anyone but myself and I cherished it greatly… I had to tell someone, now I told you…
Cherish the moments… they are your life and define who you are…