BIYF Winter 2015 Smack Down

It's no 5 park Mooch epic but it's not a 50 minute canal ride either:
https://www.strava.com/activities/241854302/overview

4 points:
1 ride
1 road
1 CR
1 Mountain Park

16 on the week.

So yesterday I think so myself, you know, I think I may head up to Mooch and do some combos. Maybe throw in the Sussex Trail and link up KVSP. Maybe even a 5 park ride! So I'm letting this run away in my head, then Weber comes and posts the ride. And then jumps 6 points ahead of us, and then I think, well shit, this week is out of touch.

After sitting around this morning slamming my toes with a hammer, I finally decided to get out and just ride the road to CR. Figure I'll take the road point, plus a CR point and make it a 3 point day. My non-BIYF goal was to ride for 2 hours. I mean, who am I kidding about a 5 park ride? My longest ride this year is 1:43. I need to get to 2 before I think about 5.

So I took a different loop to CR and went in a different way. I like it better but it's really not much different. It avoids Washington Valley entirely and when it's not frozen this access may be a much pit. Jumped up into the yellow trails since Clark said the other stuff was crappy. I rode that little trail off Gilbride, the one for like 100 yards. I think I've seen it before but never rode it. It's neat. Anyway, yellow was almost perfectly good. It wasn't really icy and the only bad spot was the new High Tech Trail near Vosseler. The stuff exposed to the south/the sun is mushy. Otherwise it's great up there.

Then I snaked through to the other side. Briefly got on white then turned around. That was peanut butter in the making, and I didn't feel like making a mess where I didn't need to. Would out the ride exiting the park at Crim Road. As I was almost out of the park, I realized my right crank arm was trying to fall off. Yesterday the front brake caliper started coming undone. Today the right crank arm. Who knew the bike would actually need this much attention if you rode it so much?

Made it up to Mountain Park and explored some stuff I had found on the cross bike a few months ago. If you zoom in on the map you can see it. Ends up in some residential area where it seems like some kids have or had some old trails back there. At one point I was pretty much in someone's back yard. But I may be able to link this right off Crim Road someday - at least almost. But then I barely got the 45 minutes on the road going the long way around. So maybe not.

Wound out the ride on the road to nail down that last point. I passed 1 more park and was tempted to ride around it for 45 minutes but that's my destination tomorrow. It also strikes me that I can probably loop all the local parks together for something like a 7 park ride, including the road. Admittedly that will push the limits of sanity, so I probably will never do that. But it's possible.
 
Norm said:
Wound out the ride on the road to nail down that last point. I passed 1 more park and was tempted to ride around it for 45 minutes but that's my destination tomorrow. It also strikes me that I can probably loop all the local parks together for something like a 7 park ride, including the road. Admittedly that will push the limits of sanity, so I probably will never do that. But it's possible.
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This is my goal for monday, since I have the day off. See how many local parks I can hit before my legs fall off. Due to rain sunday afternoon and temps monday won't even think about 6mr, so will have to be creative with smaller local parks. Hopefully sourlands is ok otherwise will be pretty lame
 
Delish said:
Scoring still confuses me but even if I triple my points for every ride I'm still not gonna win.

Lunch Break
3 pts.
1 ride
1 road
1 park (questionable pipleline/rail trail)
https://www.strava.com/activities/241871330
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I'll give ya the pipeline - it has to be 45 minutes in each "park" (road being a park) - you're a bit short, but it could have been pulled off if i could explain the rules clearly....
 
Muddy - that looked like a 3 point ride -

Ride
Road,
Bog&ivy loop - very creative.

Nice job.
 
Took it easy today, still fighting a cold. Went to my old hood on road bike.
-2 road ride X -1 Warnianco Park = +2
http://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/674912723
I was excited to see this in the mailbox today. + 1 for ordering a CD, getting it delivered via mail and posting pic.

3pts total

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pooriggy said:
Took it easy today, still fighting a cold. Went to my old hood on road bike.
-2 road ride X -1 Warnianco Park = +2
http://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/674912723
I was excited to see this in the mailbox today. + 1 for ordering a CD, getting it delivered via mail and posting pic.

3pts total
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Where was it 48 degrees today?? Its been cold all day here... and 3 points? cd's count as points? I'm hitting up Amazon since I can't ride then..
 
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