Mountain Bike rides

It's been a while since i have posted anything but Sprockets dog house is almost complete and I put his name over the door, I think its a nice dog house but Sprocket thinks the house he lives in now is much nicer.Michele and I went to Lake Fairfield State Park and camped out for the weekend of the 10th, we had a nice secluded site and had great weather. We met our camp host who lives full time in a large motor home and travels and volunteers at the State Parks in exchange for free camping. Our accommodations were a bit more rustic but we had a good time riding the miles of park roads and the 15+ miles of mountain bike trails.

Some of the trails were easy and some were pretty hard and crossed live creeks. After Michele walked Sprocket through the park the first time he met some kids and after that when we walked the kids would come out yelling here comes Sprocket, they knew not our names.

Our cycling club has started a new spin class on Monday nights and we both went on the 12th, it was a good workout and was 80 minutes of interval work. Interval work is based on timed efforts at prescribed effort levels of hard, harder, and hardest with short recovery's between sets. We were beat after this class and yet we look forward to this Monday where we will do simulated hill climb training.

On the Sailing front I have started working on the O'day 272 again and have removed the top of the mast to replace the light fixture and install a new halyard that some years ago, that I had accidentally pulled out of the mast.

I was Invited this weekend to hunt on a ranch in Brady Texas and was successful at once again replenishing my nearly exhausted supply of venison. I have some great photos but will spare everyone the dead animal shots. I assure you the meat will go to good use feeding Friends and family.

Happy Thanksgiving

Dennis & Michele