I had a customer meeting yesterday in Lansing along with a friend of mine at work, Bill. Bill and I have worked together over the past 12 years in different capacities, but have been on different teams for the past 3 and haven't had a chance to go on a sales call for a while. We used to be a great team, so it was fun being back, doing the same thing again. We got to talking with the customer we were meeting with and it turns out they go to Riverview Church. I mentioned that Bill and I had a friend of ours who happens to be one of the pastors there and that we were meeting him later in the day to go biking. The customer responded that Noel often talked about what an agressive biker he is, even going so far to do a message on the topic, entitled Mountain Biking with Mike. We told Noel we'd remind him of that fact as we rode with him. I picked Noel up and we headed over to meet Bill at Burchfield Park, meanwhile Noel tried to find the exact point in his message where he explained his lack of prowess at biking (I've heard that he will only let people listen to his messages when he rides in the car with them.)
It was a fun trail, pretty technical with good speed. We had a great time riding. I ate it once pretty hard trying to hit a jump while not knowing there were big rocks and stumps on the other side of it. It had these crazy ramps all througout it, including a ramp with a crazy teeter-totter thing at the end. Noel egged me on a bunch of times to try to make it over the big teeter-totter thing at the park. You ride up the six inch wide ramp about 4 feet in the air until the weight of your bike I tried it about ten times, severely racking myself 4 of them, never making it over the thing. The trick is that you have to find the perfect speed to hit it, going fast enough that you don't lose your balance going up it, but slow enough that the teeter-totter has time change directions at the top. Some of the stuff they had at the park was crazy enough that I felt the need to at least try it, but wasn't real successful on much of it.

Last night we had Will's going away party at BW3's and went to see The Fourty Year Old Virgin afterwards with Will and Mark. Funny movie, Steve Carrel is hilarious. Probably could have waited to see it on video.