Biking

Mountain Biking

My husband best likes to enjoy the great South Carolina outdoors by hurtling headfirst down steep hills, bouncing off trees, slogging through muddy water, and suffering mild strokes while dragging his mountain bike up the next forty degree slope. So what would any woman do? Join him!

Though I don't make it out as often as the guys do, I do enjoy having the wind knocked out of me, heaving breath through a mouth full of cotton, seeing layers of skin disappear from my legs before my very eyes and feeling my heartbeat in my eye just as much as anyone.

A small group of my husband's friends consistently meet every Sunday morning at the local Huddle House at 8 am with bikes on their cars or trucks, and head together to various points of the state, or into Georgia or North Carolina for the day. We join them as often as we can, and welcome anyone in our area who enjoys the same sensations of hilltop winds blowing against sweat, blood and tears!

If you live in the northwestern South Carolina area, or anywhere in GA, NC or SC and know of a great place for mountain biking or just want to join a ride, feel free to contact us about riding! It is far more fun with more people, and we can all compare bruises and open wounds together at the Dairy Queen afterward. Although some people in the group have more expensive bikes, I have a second-hand DiamondBack with a front shock that I love. We mostly ride trails, though some are much easier than others, and a few are hardly fit to be called "trails". I am commonly the only woman aboard so other women would be nice!

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