Our Trip to Lake Norman State Park

October 22, 2020

I'm really behind in our posts but I've been trying to work through a YouTube problem and I haven't been able to get the problem fixed yet. So I just decided to go ahead and post my bike ride through Lake Norman State Park. It has been heavily redacted to cut out any cursing on my park but I have left in some of my frustrated feelings about trail biking/mountain biking. The trail itself is part of the Itsui trail system which is comprised of 8 loops ranging from 1 mile to 9.75 miles in distance and is a total of 30 miles in all. The trails themselves are gorgeous and if I hadn't been so uptight about riding a bike on this teeny, tiny trail and worried that I would face plant into a tree, I would have enjoyed myself better. I am showing the part of the bike ride that we did after we came off the trail. It was on the road and honestly, wasn't all that bad after I got used to shifting gears. Robert was a great coach and very encouraging but I was definitely exhausted (mentally and physically) after finishing our ride. I would love to do more bike trails in the future but I'll opt for more flat trails with a lot of wide open spaces! I hope you enjoy it. The video is about 13 minutes long. I promise to catch up as soon as I can. We are almost at the end of our Going Coastal trip and I have so much more to share. Enjoy!