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[QUOTE="firecracker22, post: 102710, member: 20316"]
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Ok, I had a great weekend riding and felt better than I ever have.  Steve helped me set up my suspension and jet my carb so my bike was running and handling better than ever.

He took me on some intermediate level trails in the Cascade mountains near Lake Wenatchee.  They were fairly wide, with some switchbacks and a couple of creek crossings and lots and lots of sidehills.  I was standing more--the only reason I would sit down was from exhaustion as I'm out of shape--and I felt great on the bike.

What helped the most was looking ahead.  This is something I have to force myself to do since my brain wants to know what's going on right in front of me.  But I worked on making myself look up and ahead as far as I could see (also because these are fairly popular trails and there is no posted direction).  It really helped--both with death grip, and with not freaking out about steep sidehills, and with my body position since if you're looking up and ahead you have less tendency to hunch over.

So while it's not easy it does work.
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