An afternoon ride in the heat!

Man it was hot today. Had to go to work to cut the school grounds with the kids. After that we played some Ringette, which they called (Floor hockey). It was fun the kids were pretty good actually. On the way home I knew I wanted to get on the bike. Called Mitch but he was too busy so called Steve hoping that his kids sports day would be finished. So at 3:30 pm we got on the bikes. Went up Minagata again and did our favourite course. We do it too much but its so long and today the conditions were prefect! Steve with Some northern Nagano Mountains.
The View was nice so we went to the top before our ride. Looking at Goryu with some nice sun rays.

After having a great ride down Minagata we decided to try and find the elusive Goryu Trail. Here is the start it was a wild ride super technical and really fast. One brake miss and you will go mach speed.

Sorry I forgot my camera so I used my cell phone.

Ms Newmarch and Ms Kowal

My good buddy Kyles wife Lynn. She still looks great pretty much the way I remember her when she was only 19 or 20. Reysa and Keagan their beautiful kids.
Hannah and ryesa man they were/are good playmates.

My work place

My work place has some great views. Today we had an Art day and the kids all went outside and drew pictures. My job was to sit there and make sure that no one came and hurt the kids. Had a good time just sitting on my arse for 3 hours watching them paint and laugh. The view of the local mountains isnt bad either. Mount Jonan didnt want to pop out of the clouds but it was still nice.
Yuji on of the best baseball players at school drwing a tree and laughing about it for 3 hours.

Every Gaijin in Town

Aoikiko Lake it cleared enough to get this shot, went for a short swim after this.

What a day! Went riding with Steve from 6am to 8am up and down Minagata. Great ride almost prefect course. Then came back and chilled with my 2 girls before they went back to Kyoto.
After dropping off the girls I was bored so I decided to go for ride number 2. I rode up and over Sanosaka and over to the downhill course at Aoikiko. Met Karey and Koji there and proceeded to show them how bad my MTBing skills were. Got a little sun shower and then we got a cool rainbow off the lake.


This is me at near the top of sanosaka after the gravel section
After the Downhill I wanted to take a swim. The weather wont be nice for much longer so I jumped in. still about 25 degrees so nice temps. On the way home I did Bennett's old trail from the side top of Sanosaka. Didn't ride well but after 50ks of biking Im not surprised. On the way home I saw/met Troy, Sakiko, Albert and fam twice Stewart and family twice. I saw a good portion of gaijin in town!

A great day

Good look Babe in Kyoto!