Mountain Biking has been our quarantine cure.
I say it often because I truly believe in it, nature is healing. Time outdoors brings a renewing energy I crave during the cold cloudy winter days. We try to get outdoors through the winter, but it’s springtime when we really feel the energy and the pull of the Earth! Spring is a time of getting back outside as the days are warmer and more green is beginning to show each day. Life is re-emerging. However, this year, spring was springing right in the midst of quarantine. And let’s just say this year has been a clear kick in the ass. The month of May, during quarantine, it snowed!
But there were the sunny, just warm enough days and we found a way to cure our indoor illness. We always go biking! Talk about spring swings, Kali riding in her bathing suit a few days after the spring snow.
I am not a fan of the cold dreary winter days. I love snow and playing in it, such as skiing, snowmobiling and sledding. But, often our winters are blah. When the days finally get just warm enough to get the bikes out and get back on the trails, we do it! Especially this year. We made an agreement with our teen babysitter, who was feeling the negative effects of isolation herself, that we’d be transparent in who we interact with and she as well. It was easy, we really only interacted with one another! So every weekend, bikes on the trails!!
It gave us hope in an odd time and just as spring should, it renewed so much love for everything!
I decided one day to attach my go-pro (actually not a go-pro) to my helmet and take everyone else who hasn’t gone out on the trails, with me!
But let me tell you, plenty of people were getting out. The parking lots, always full! Luckily the trail system is expansive enough that once you’re out there, it feels as if it’s all to yourself.
As you can imagine, Mountain Biking is a great Well-Fit activity with so many health benefits; for the body and the mind! Great info mountainbikesonly.com
We get out on the bikes as a family as well, neighborhood ride.
And as the days get warmer and everything really pops and blossoms, the forest is amazing! This day below, it smelled like a perfume factory! I can say that genuinely because I’ve toured a perfume factory in France!
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Back home, post ride meals are always either fish tacos or something on the grill. Then a fire outside and gathering together with our quarantine fam.
This year, birthday wishes are taken seriously! We need all the wishes and positive energy we can get! Dan’s, Kali’s and my own happened during quarantine. So we are setting our intentions to really use this mountain biking time to manifest our way to celebrate our 40th in Moab! We’ll get there. Desert heat and an adventure paradise, all outdoors! Well-Fit mountain biking for our Whole Well-Being!
