As I mentally prepare for my first road race, I am trying to remind myself not to take things too seriously. I have an unfortunate tendency to underprepare physically and then have a total colon blow of a mind right before and during races. Knowing this subtle (not really) detail about myself, I decided to head to the forest again today. Ah, yes, the comfort that is retreatism. Anyways, I decided to hit some catch and release and wild water today, and also go for a hike. I was lucky enough to catch about 7 or 8 trout, the nicest of which is pictured below.
After fishing for a while, I went back to the truck, ate some food and let the dog run around in the river for a bit. We then packed it up and headed over to another area to hike to Roaring Fork Falls. Along the old roadbed, we saw quite a few signs of bears in the area, not the least of which was a log that was totally obliterated in the search for grubs/termites. Another tell-tale sign: scat. Lots of scat. After the numerous olfactory diversions for Lorien, we ended up at the final destination.
Dernrightpurty if I don't say so myself!
3 comments:
you'll do great barry. stay up front and don't do ANY work.
Where do you go fishing? We need to go sometime.
barry - exactly, breathe deep and don't fret. racing hurts whether you're at the front or the back, winning or losing. cam's right...stay near the front and don't do ANY work. next time you ride with me, i'll let you pull all you want, but don't help those guys unless the entire CLM creates a break...
Thanks guys, I plan on doing a lot of sitting in, especially since I know Whit is going to be there now.
Cam, I was fishing near Mt. Mitchell, on the South Toe, and I think the Lost Cove
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