| Back at Trinity and in Dp3 training...
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| So it rained tonight, good thing cause I really needed a shower. Well you would too if you worked in a lumber yard in the upper 90 degree weather. To the relief of all, I used soap.
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| If the world was no longer the enemy of the Christian, then the Christian had to become the enemy of the dark world.
-Henri J.M. Nouwen
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| Bree this is for you, now you don't have to be my friend. I know you have been waiting for this to come for a while now... 
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| Well tonight I was humbled, I went for a bike ride. I quickly remembered that Illinois is very flat and Pennsylvania is not. The hills killed me. Secondly it was very wet, it rained all day here, but cleared up so I thought I would get a bike ride in. Bad idea! I had numerous wipe outs, I was riding hard trail. There were three that were really bad, the first two were my back tire washing out and me almost going over a steep hillside, that leads to a river and rocks. The third was me not seeing a steep bank riding into it and flying off my bike, I am lucky I didn't break my shoulder, I do have a bad bruise. I quickly remembered three quick rules:
1.Pick good rideing lines, it means the difference between a wipe out and a great ride.
2.Thank God for a good helmet.
3. It hurts to fall hard, but getting back up and making the next challenge is even better!
The trail beat me this time, but I will beat it before summer ends...  
*edit* So today 5/27/06 I went for a ride afterwork at like 1:30 pm, on the same trail as last night. It was much dryer and I picked better lines. Yet my bike is now in the shop needeing new levers and a complete tune and check up. Why do you ask? Because of a fallen tree, a standing big tree, and I found my self sliding down the hillside only to be stopped by another tree. I am fine, my bike is not. I will beat this trail.
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