Going Long and Hard.

I still have to get my race resume up to par to get into the 350. Doing the shorter one will go a long way towards that though. It's a good sign that I was at the top of the Waitlist.
 
Now that you are in the 130 (which is awesome!), how is that going to affect time/budget for the other races you were considering qualifiers? You mentioned the 130 is going to be nearly as expensive as the whole deal.
Good Luck!
 
extremedave said:
Now that you are in the 130 (which is awesome!), how is that going to affect time/budget for the other races you were considering qualifiers? You mentioned the 130 is going to be nearly as expensive as the whole deal.
Good Luck!
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I'm basically f@%ked. I may have to condense my bike collection a little further.
 
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Congrats Jim! Looking forward to the journey.
 
Catching up because I've been riding my bike a lot.

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Still sans car so I commuted everyday. Thursday was really nice so I did an extra 30 miles or so after work. Friday was my son's birthday so I had to book home.

Saturday.

Saturday I had a day pass as my kids were at a slumber party. I used every minute of it and rode up to Bear Mountain and back. Basically used the same route I took to SSAP but went up Perkins Drive instead.

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Rode in and out of rain storms throughout the day and just made it home before it really opened up. Ended up with 150-miles in 8.5 hours. I only stopped twice, once at the top of Perkins and then on the way out of the park.

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https://www.strava.com/activities/305930641

Sunday.

I slept in a bit and got a late start on Sunday. Planned on doing a quick Century to Washington's Crossing, through New Hope, and then back around Round Valley. Nice, flat, and fast. My butt was a little sore and it took a bit to get going. We had plans for the afternoon so I cut the ride short and only did 80ish miles.

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https://www.strava.com/activities/306615113

Bumped back into the lead for the National Bike Challenge and completed the Strava MTS already with 2 weeks left so I'm gonna try to double it. I want to turn this thing up and see when the wheels fall off. This week was 400+ miles in 25-hours.
 
gtluke said:
Damn Jimmy nice work. You need a side job where you transport people via bike rickshaw all over NJ.
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A Fatbike Rickshaw! I think you may be on to something. You, well @jimvreeland, could ferry people around the national parks, off road!

Jim gets a workout and the desk jockeys discover that the nature channel isn't CGI..... Win!
 
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