One of the things about APU that I was really excited about was that there were several other APU training groups in addition to the elite team. There's a couple of junior groups and a couple of masters groups. I thought that it would be nice to get to do some workouts with a different group every so often. So today I joined the APU Noon group (coached by the fabulous Miss Holly Brooks) at Kincaid for some mountain biking! I don't actually mountain bike nor do I have a mountain bike but SallyB said that I could borrow hers. So I did. Even better, the noon group is a women's training group which means that my mountain biking skills vastly improved because I had the benefit of the collective knowledge of the group. I received some great advice on mountain biking technique from the other ladies and got much more comfortable with going over huge obstacles. Okay, not huge, but to a road biker even the tiniest root sticking up looks huge! I feel like I'm pushing my comfort zone more up here. I like it.