Island Lake works in the fall

Very little leaf cover on trail makes IL a great fall ride. 14.2 miles in 1:14 - very fast and cool 65 degrees and still about 30% leaf tree coverage. Have to come back to wrap the season here.

Wed. Oct. 20 Ok day at Metro

Got alot of promise in this day with SW 20-30 forecast and SC warnings. However, weak wind 15-20 (but great sunny clear skies) persisted from 11am until 1pm when I rigged up a 5.7 xPersh and the 107FSW. Things started to really get good by 2pm with winds now 15-25 and waves off the point getting really nice 3-5' curling. By 3pm, I was on the 84 FSW ProEd and the same overpowered 5.7. Just had to add the outhaul and downhaul to maxout the range. The sail and board combo was awesome for full on power and control with wind gusting to 30+. Good fall day with reasonable mid 50 temps and mostly sunny. Lots of fun being full powered and little of no weeds. We need a couple more of these before DST kicks in.

Sunday Oct. 17 Maybury Quick Ride

Great 45 minutes on leaf littered Maybury trail doing 7.6 miles in sun and 60 cool degrees. Fall mtb rides are here... be careful not to slip.

Sun. Oct. 10 Great Highland Ride

16.8 miles in a long 2:30. Perfect sun and 82 degrees, beautiful fall day ride. Tough mental ride but completing A, B, C & D - super satisfying.

Sunday Oct. 3 Classic Day at Lex

Classic day! Started nice and sunny with a 20-30 ENE swell and winds. Rigged the 4.5 and the 84 ProEd which worked great for the first few hours. Nice clean 4-6' waves all setting up for riding and jumping coming into the shorebreak. That east component to the wind had us all adjusting our sailing lines but everyone had smiles on there faces.

As the day wore on the 5 and then later the 5.7 made an appearance but the power and swell stayed there for the most part. A great lex day all in all and on a weekend no less. Hoping for a couple more of these. Soon.

Saturday Oct. 2 Blue Lagoon

Barely can say this day was a session at BL. NE winds 12-18 with some nasty rain and temps in the low 50's. Got the 107 FSW and the 6.2 Alpha out for and hour or two. Very disappointing with all the north forecasted. Should have followed the boys up to Lex where it kicked in late.

Memories from Friday...thanks MB.

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Sunday Sept. 26th Fast Pontiac Ride

Nice 10.3 miles with Chuck and John B and John B (and not JAB) in 1:06 at PLSP. Good cool 60's temps and luckily no falls. Not enough in me to do a second loop with these pros. Need a rest after these past 3 days. Great long weekend.

Saturday, Sept. 25th Blue Lago report

Not anything to compare to yesterday. We had a morning session on the 6.2 Alpha and the 107 FSW with 15-20 west winds that didn't really kick in after the morning boundary layer burned off. Got in about 2.5 hours until about noon. Damn I miss that small sail and new 84 already.

Friday, Sept. 24th Wind, Wind, Wind! Golf is cancelled.

'Gale' called from Metro on Friday said get over here with the small stuff. So I did.

Great day on the new JP FSW 84 ProEd and the 3.7! Gusts touching 50!

Shot and edited with iMovie on the iPhone.