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Mitchell Memorial Trail Build 1-12-08

January 17, 2008 on 5:13 pm | In Cinti.& Ohio River Valley |

My skin hurts! A buddy of mine used to say that the morning after a night of drinking with the boys. I kinda feel that way today. It’s two days after a mountain bike trail building day at Mitchell Memorial Park in Cincinnati. After swinging a Rhino for nearly 4 hours, my hands feel as if I spent a night hanging from a flag pole over downtown traffic gripping for dear life. For those not in the know, a Rhino is a hoe on steroids and is used for bench cutting trails by hand. If you have a non-manual labor type job, you owe yourself to swing a Rhino for a few hours to make you remember how good you have it.
I strained that little muscle on my palm at the base of my thumb, pretty sure that’s my monkey touching muscle. Afterward, a friend of mine had trouble holding onto a cup of Starbucks. We both have a bad case of woosie hand. While we both may not be able to grip a pen for the next few days, it was well worth it.
The group of 30 to 40 Cincinnati Off Road Alliance (CORA) volunteers surpassed their goal and brought the trail to where they thought they might be by the end of February. CORA is a chapter of the Ohio Mountain Bike Association (OMBA), which is a member of IMBA. Cora, Omba, Imba. Chant it three times fast. The bunch was excited at the prospect of riding the trail as soon as early summer. When completed, the 4 mile trail will be the first official mountain bike trail in Hamilton County.

Learn more or find out when the next trail day is, click here: http://joinomba.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=7783#50082

Read more from BioWheels’ Joe Bellante on the Joe Biker blog: http://journals.aol.com/joejoebiker/joebiker/