Bikin', Hikin', Joggin'

Since posting last, I've returned to Lower Dan's Trail a couple times, once with my bike and once with Ben. Biking it was a blast -- at least, that one downhill mile was a blast. After that, it turned into me walking my bike up a lot of hills and falling off once when I realized I have no idea how to ride my bike down the sharp corner of a switchback. Expert mountain biker, I am not. Besides, when you're on a bike you're much less likely to find stashes of oyster mushrooms like so:

Today I jogged/walked the New Growth and Old Growth trails at McDonald Forest. I'm hoping that incorporating biking and jogging into my routine will get me a bit more in shape. Judging by how much I ached after biking, the plan is succeeding!

Sci-fi and Old Growth

Wednesday is now my day to work on fiction. Science-fiction, that is. While I have a number of partially completed novels, one of them is my favorite -- and it's almost complete. Sadly, it's novella-length which means it might be harder to publish, but we'll see.
After getting home from my writers' group, I made a delicious scallion/spinach/jalapeño/mushrooms/fake cheese quesadilla and then headed back to the Old Growth Trail with Ben as the sun set. I think I can safely say it's our favorite trail in Corvallis now, half due to its immensely large trees, half because it's covered in moss, and well, it wins an extra half just because it's awesome.