2022 31/31 Ride daily for bragging rights and a reward. TM / Jorba / MtbNJ /

Day 13: Deformed Candle GPS Art

For the first time this month, I went on a road ride. I dabbled in the idea of trying to do nothing but mountain bike rides, but the reality is that a) CR would get boring and b) I would get so tired that every ride would start to be a drag. I really didn't want to face either of those situations. Instead, we hit the swamp after we dropped off the tall kid at work. Then we did a moderate loop on which we were passed by 43,717 cars. Roughly.

The road bike is riding wonderfully now, thanks to @jimvreeland giving it a once over for me. I dropped it off before Vermont with the note, "Make it good," which is exactly what it said on the ticket. I can say that he followed instructions and it is now, in fact, good. I like to do my own work to some extent. But like most of us, I am in a reactive mode as opposed to proactive. Giving it to the pro on occasion is a good thing. It's nice & smooth now.

We forgot to take a picture so you get a Facebook memory from 7 years ago.

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13/31 - Got my hour in before joining the trail maintenance crew at Clayton tonight. I didn't stop to take any pictures but I did manage to take a crown. Clayton is really shaping up. The trail work is slowly but surely improving the flow of the trails and I haven't had this much fun at Clayton in forever. If you haven't been in a while it's definitely worth going to check out.
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This is the area the tornado hit last July at baldpate, this was previously a thick canopy and you would have never been able to see the sun here in the morning and the ridge to the north that RT 518 is on top of. It is pretty amazing to see.
My parents neighborhood (where I grew up) got hit with microburst a few years back- cleared out allllll the trees.
Its still bizarre going back there and seeing no canopy.
 
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