Today I went mountain biking with the two women I usually ride with off-road. We got mixed in with a large group of middle and high school racers, their coaches, some parents, and some guy on an e-bike. There was a grueling 3 mile climb where some of them passed us and then a steep, twisty descent full of holes, loose rocks and 180 degree turns. My friend has mad skillz and she has raced on and off road so she went ahead and dropped everyone on the descent. Like vanished out of sight dropped. It was the highlight of the ride for me. She said she was waiting at the bottom for a while before anyone showed up and when they did, they asked her how she got there ahead of them, as if she knew a shortcut. I like to see guys freaked out like that.