The Sartorialist

What a prick.

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Mountain Biking

So yesterday I had my first experience mountain biking. I took my bike, which basically is another color of this one:

My bike is really not made for the abuse that mountain bike trails can serve up. Luckily, mine held up fine and despite the bruises, blisters and cuts I had an awesome time. I rode a trail called the Tour de Wolf that's located in Shelby Farms. Shelby Farms is the largest urban park in the US and is about 5x bigger than Central Park. The only picture of the TDW that I could find that at least somewhat displays it's difficulty (although it's not that difficult) is below.

I get some leftover scholarship money in about a month and I'm considering using some of it to buy an actual mountain bike. I don't want to spend too much and have my eye on this one from Trek that looks reasonably priced and is a pretty good-looking bike. It also has gotten pretty good reviews given the price point.

However, this may not happen because the start of school in both the fall and spring means a fair amount of money coming my way. For the last couple years that money coming my way has meant new clothes coming my way. As much fun as mountain biking is, I can't help feeling like I would be sick at all the clothes I passed on in order to get the bike. I mean, the bike would end up being about $500. I think clothing will prevail. Someday soon I'll post a wish list for F/W.

Been a while

It's been a while since my last post. I think I'm going to actually post with regularity and hopefully I can turn this thing into something I can be proud of. The summer is almost over. It's been a relatively calm one with a couple summer classes and a trip to Sandestin thrown in for good measure. I actually developed somewhat of a tan this year. I'm actually looking forward to school and work starting back up this year. My classes should be interesting and I desperately need the money that comes from my job and from my leftover scholarship money. I'm going to turn in now because I'm supposed to get up early in the morning to bike.