Ice, Hills and a Broken Light

All day I was psyching myself up for another single speed flat land night ride. Then I checked the redstone blog to confirm where we were meeting. Looks like I needed to break out the heavy artillery for this ride. I hadn't rode the Jamestown OHV area since last May and didn't have my Turner then. This was a totally different ride on many levels. The biggest difference being that this time it was dark and the trail was covered with snow and ice. Although I was at the back of the pack, I was still feeling pretty strong. There were lot's of places where I had to hike and push my bike due to a lack of traction and my lungs felt like they were going to pop out of my chest. Once you had to start hiking it was tough to get riding again because my cleats were packed with snow and ice. Here we are at "5 points":

Night ride pics never turn out that well. I tried to take some pics of Boulder's lights but they look like a big blurry mess. Maybe I need a better camera...

After a hell climb, nice downhill single track (with minimal carnage) and another hell hike a bike hill climb we got on the best single track of the ride. Pretty swoopy and nice all the way back down to the highway. Unfortunately, about 100 yards from the end I tagged a low hanging branch with the light on my helmet. The bracket holding the light on my helmet broke like balsa wood in a two year old's fist. The light swung around on top of my helmet and stopped shining me directly in the left eye. I'm pretty sure that my light is so bright that it can be seen from space. You can imagine how this felt. I've been seeing green dots ever since. I sure hope this goes away. Even two gutbuckets of Dale's didn't help!

Goin' snow riding in UT on Saturday. Stay tuned...