IGVENTURE
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Well it was nice to get out on the trails while they were dry. Yesterday I went to Allaire after work. It was fun to ride the mtb midweek and not think about doing interval work on the roadie. After my century on Sunday the rest of the week is fun stuff as far as I'm concerned.
With the rains today I bagged any idea of riding, the thought of hopping on the rollers didn't appeal to me. At this point putting 45minutes on the rollers ain't going to do dick for me, I'll save dick for tomorrow.
Me and Shmev worked on painting the spare room upstairs. All the molding I put in 2 wks ago needs to be painted. This is so tedious, taping off, priming, 2 finish coats...Shmev is a big help, I don't have to bug him to much to help me and he works neat. J always wants to help but I ain't putting a paintbrush in that kids hands, he's a mess. Besides he wants to help for like 5 minutes, once he realizes its work he bails.
Oh and always use oil based paint on wood. It gives a much nicer finish and is way more durable.
Old, borrowed and kinda blue.
This clip surfaced not too long ago, great 70's stuff. Running on Empty is a must have album. Jackson cleaned up his act, he is older and drug free now. But like great 70's performers his best stuff is behind him.The Shmev
Ok lets see if I can bang this out I got soccer in 15 minutes.
Yesterday
I took the day off work and headed to Kirts Castle cause that's where he dwells. On my way there I saw a bunch of people waiting for the bus on rt 22. I so wanted to roll the window down and say HA HA! But yelling stuff out a car window when your older just doesn't work anymore. Great lines like fuck her I did and how much? are gone for me. You just can't do this kinda stuff when your older.
Well it was a great day to take off work and ride, nothing feels better than blowing off work midweek to ride my bike. We left from Kirt's house and headed west. The trails were too wet so we stayed on the road and hit up Lake rd..Pottersville rd, Black River Rd...these are must ride's for roadies.
Heading back to Burnt Mills Rd we passed Vreeland, we exchanged middle fingers and kept riding. My garmin said the pace was 16.3 avg, which is just kinda cruising. I didn't want to hammer out a pace but rather just put in some volume and enjoy the day with Kirt. I always enjoy riding with Kirt, he is one of the people I click with and conversation is always easy.
There are not many houses on Black River rd. but I managed to get a pic of Kirt in front of one.
Today
I just did a 40 minute stay loose pace around the hood. Its all I had time for, plus I'm gonna do a 3 hr mtb ride tomorrow at Hartshorne...I'll hammer that.
Tune In
What is working for me as I get older is inspirational, uplifting music. When I was younger my music was angrier...I don't want to be pissed off anymore, I want to be happy. Is that fucking wrong?
Get outside and enjoy the weekend. Good luck to cross racers at Morristown.
Yesterday
I took the day off work and headed to Kirts Castle cause that's where he dwells. On my way there I saw a bunch of people waiting for the bus on rt 22. I so wanted to roll the window down and say HA HA! But yelling stuff out a car window when your older just doesn't work anymore. Great lines like fuck her I did and how much? are gone for me. You just can't do this kinda stuff when your older.
Well it was a great day to take off work and ride, nothing feels better than blowing off work midweek to ride my bike. We left from Kirt's house and headed west. The trails were too wet so we stayed on the road and hit up Lake rd..Pottersville rd, Black River Rd...these are must ride's for roadies.
Heading back to Burnt Mills Rd we passed Vreeland, we exchanged middle fingers and kept riding. My garmin said the pace was 16.3 avg, which is just kinda cruising. I didn't want to hammer out a pace but rather just put in some volume and enjoy the day with Kirt. I always enjoy riding with Kirt, he is one of the people I click with and conversation is always easy.
There are not many houses on Black River rd. but I managed to get a pic of Kirt in front of one.
Today
I just did a 40 minute stay loose pace around the hood. Its all I had time for, plus I'm gonna do a 3 hr mtb ride tomorrow at Hartshorne...I'll hammer that.
Tune In
What is working for me as I get older is inspirational, uplifting music. When I was younger my music was angrier...I don't want to be pissed off anymore, I want to be happy. Is that fucking wrong?
Get outside and enjoy the weekend. Good luck to cross racers at Morristown.
The Kalmyk
Well-Known Member
Iggy Screams: Hey Dream Boat
waits for a look
Iggy Screams: Not you ship wreck
waits for a look
Iggy Screams: Not you ship wreck
Saturday
It feels good not having to work on weekends, so needless to say I felt good this weekend and it ain't over yet.
Yesterday I woke up at my leisure and moseyed on over to Hartshorne. The plan was to put in 3hrs. of endurance pace between here and Huber. Before I tell you who I rode with let me tell you about my secret at Hartshorne. I'm talking about the Claypit Creek lot on Locust ave. This is THE place to park when mtbing here, the lot was put in about a year ago. This blows the Buttermilk lot off of Navasink ave. away. Use the Claypit Creek parking lot and you'll understand. You can always find a parking spot, the porta-john is right there, the lot is on the former Fisher Stern estate so its beautiful, hardly anyone uses the lot, its a lot safer then pulling out onto Navasink Ave, you get a little warm-up mtbing the rd over verses climbing the trails right out of buttermilk.
Don't tell too many people about this secret, this is vip parking only.
Well I parked and headed over to the trail head at buttermilk and made my way up the climb to the right. I passed a friendly chap at the bottom of the climb who stayed on my wheel for about a half mile. I wasn't drilling it but figured whoever was hanging with me has some skills. We started talking and I come to find out its Mare's boy friend Marc... aka MarcLewis. I did a member search and just realized there right next to each in the member directory, how cute.
Marc doesn't post up much but I found him very fun to ride with, in fact delightful. He's got this great voice to listen too, I think he is Australian. We would be bombing downhill on a trail and come across some hikers who seemed startled by us and Marc would say good morning in his great voice and they would just smile and wave. You can't get pissed at a guy with great voice.
We rode for 2hrs and then he had to split. I've been to Hartshorne too many times, having someone like Marc to ride with takes the boredom out of places that are too familiar. After he left I put in another hour at Huber and called it a day.
Another discover on this ride was that my Garmin 500 is not accurate when recording miles and speed in the woods. The signal gets lost and as a result the miles and avg. speed get screwed up. Marc had a speed sensor which is a lot more accurate. I put in like 28 miles at Hart & Huber yesterday.
McDudeman Marc
After mtbing I got home around 1:15. I had toyed with the idea of going to Morristown to cheer on some teammates at the cross race but I bagged it. There were too many chores to do around the house plus I didn't feel like driving another 40+ miles round trip after already driving 60 miles.
McIggy Man...I heart Rita's
Sunday
Woke up early and did a short road ride just to stay loose. I didn't have time for much more because we had to leave for J's soccer game in Allentown Pa. We hit the road and made good time on 78, got there in like 75 minutes. While J was warming up with his team me and Mary hit up the best of Lehigh Valley...Wegmans. We need one of these in Cranford, they have good shit there.
Wegmans is great. Where else can you get good beer, quinoa, chocolate organic granola and stinger waffles all under one roof.
I am no health nut but I don't eat fast food, except for pizza...but I don't consider that junk. Mary is more into whole foods then I am but as I get older I like knowing my food is pure...like my thoughts.🙄
Speaking of pure...what about these kids? I found this on Shmev's camera, looks like a Friday night hanging out kinda thing. I like this shot Shmev took, I'm not happy about the basement party pics after this took place. Shmev is doing a lot better in school this year, A's & B's, and he is helpful around the house but I wish he was a nerd who stayed in and read books on the weekend. Oh well the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. The kids are alright...I think.
mwlikesbikes
Well-Known Member
Marc's a merry olde Englishmun. Him & me killed it today at Round Valley for 20 miles.
Mo Power
I went back to doing interval work yesterday, concentrating on power. 6x75x75 does the job for me with regards to power. I go to max gear at a standstill and grind it out for 75" staying seated. I hadn't done these since the beginning of October, taking a break from them was a good thing. For me it really gets old doing the same thing week after week. Its better for me to do these for like 3-4wks then take a break from them. My attitude can go to F it if I do something to long...I likes to hit it and quit it.
Mixing power in with endurance is my plan for Cathedral Pines. I am weak in the power department so I say work on your weakness to see improvement across the ouija board. I had to look that word up...google search is the best I wasn't even close with ouija.
I can ride a long time, endurance is not the problem...I'm like those Ethiopian marathon runners that can go the distance. I need more power like Utah, so my avg. speed output is not lame.
Usually I head over to the Great Swamp to do interval work but I pedaled 20 minutes over to Warinaco Park to get it done. Its closer and there is no climbing to get there. The only thing I don't like about Warinaco is you get guys suck on your back wheel in silence. I finished my intervals and was cruising around when I went to blow a snot rocket and this dude was 12" behind me...it scared the crap out of me. I don't know what it is about this place that brings these stealth riders out. Even after he scared me I said oh, how you doing...silence. The guy stayed on my wheel for 20 minutes, I couldn't shake him. What was even more bizarre is that fact that he said nothing the whole time. Oh well I guess it was just one of my fans.
Off to soccer now.
I went back to doing interval work yesterday, concentrating on power. 6x75x75 does the job for me with regards to power. I go to max gear at a standstill and grind it out for 75" staying seated. I hadn't done these since the beginning of October, taking a break from them was a good thing. For me it really gets old doing the same thing week after week. Its better for me to do these for like 3-4wks then take a break from them. My attitude can go to F it if I do something to long...I likes to hit it and quit it.
Mixing power in with endurance is my plan for Cathedral Pines. I am weak in the power department so I say work on your weakness to see improvement across the ouija board. I had to look that word up...google search is the best I wasn't even close with ouija.
I can ride a long time, endurance is not the problem...I'm like those Ethiopian marathon runners that can go the distance. I need more power like Utah, so my avg. speed output is not lame.
Usually I head over to the Great Swamp to do interval work but I pedaled 20 minutes over to Warinaco Park to get it done. Its closer and there is no climbing to get there. The only thing I don't like about Warinaco is you get guys suck on your back wheel in silence. I finished my intervals and was cruising around when I went to blow a snot rocket and this dude was 12" behind me...it scared the crap out of me. I don't know what it is about this place that brings these stealth riders out. Even after he scared me I said oh, how you doing...silence. The guy stayed on my wheel for 20 minutes, I couldn't shake him. What was even more bizarre is that fact that he said nothing the whole time. Oh well I guess it was just one of my fans.
Off to soccer now.
Tuesday
Day off the bike which was good, this gave me time to make it to Jamie's soccer game. Jamie is in 8th grade, due to school budget cutbacks they cut the junior high school sports program out of the budget and there is no 7th & 8th grade soccer program any longer in Cranford. There are still soccer teams sponsored by the Cranford Soccer club but nothing school funded. The Cranford Soccer club organizes a once/yr game between the 2 junior high schools in Cranford. This is more for fun kinda thing before a high school soccer game.
Before the start of the high school soccer game I saw a lot of juniors from the hs. These are kids Shmev's age, boys that I was a den leader for in cub scouts as well as a coach to in baseball. I was amazed at how old some of them looked. I had to do a double take when they said hello Mr. Brawley, these kids are now men. Its times like these that I feel old but at the same time I feel happy to have been a part of there growing up...its a weird feeling.
3 x 8
Yesterday it was back to intervals, the old 3x8x8's. I did the 45 minute ride to the swamp to do these and incorporated some more miles in the area when I was done to get in a 51 mile deal. This is always bonus when you can get in close to 3hrs during the week. I left work early to do this because I can. I have a lot of time to take this time of year so I like to use it on days when the weather is nice for riding. I'd rather go into work when it rains then take a day off to ride in crap.
Today was just some light spinning on the rollers for 35 minutes. The plan from now until Sunday is to just stay loose and get ready to pounce on another century ride. This one is the flatter Monmouth, Sourlands, 6 mile area tour, which means more faster.
TMHartshorneTM
I should also mention that things are going in a positive direction with regards to getting some meaningful work done at Hartshorne. It would seem that conversations I've had with fellow Park System employees has had some influence and I have even been asked for input with regards to work on the trails. I work on the golf courses for the Park System, thats my area of expertise. While I earn a living managing golf course maintenance and construction I've let it be known to the higher ups in the Parks my passion is cycling...mtbing in particular. Hopefully I can contribute something to get the trails in better shape, at this point I'm just taking it one step at a time and hoping for the best.
Please support me and the mtbing community by attending the Park System training class and supporting TM sessions at Hartshorne when you can.
Your pal,
Iggs
Day off the bike which was good, this gave me time to make it to Jamie's soccer game. Jamie is in 8th grade, due to school budget cutbacks they cut the junior high school sports program out of the budget and there is no 7th & 8th grade soccer program any longer in Cranford. There are still soccer teams sponsored by the Cranford Soccer club but nothing school funded. The Cranford Soccer club organizes a once/yr game between the 2 junior high schools in Cranford. This is more for fun kinda thing before a high school soccer game.
Can you tell me where J is????
Before the start of the high school soccer game I saw a lot of juniors from the hs. These are kids Shmev's age, boys that I was a den leader for in cub scouts as well as a coach to in baseball. I was amazed at how old some of them looked. I had to do a double take when they said hello Mr. Brawley, these kids are now men. Its times like these that I feel old but at the same time I feel happy to have been a part of there growing up...its a weird feeling.
3 x 8
Yesterday it was back to intervals, the old 3x8x8's. I did the 45 minute ride to the swamp to do these and incorporated some more miles in the area when I was done to get in a 51 mile deal. This is always bonus when you can get in close to 3hrs during the week. I left work early to do this because I can. I have a lot of time to take this time of year so I like to use it on days when the weather is nice for riding. I'd rather go into work when it rains then take a day off to ride in crap.
Today was just some light spinning on the rollers for 35 minutes. The plan from now until Sunday is to just stay loose and get ready to pounce on another century ride. This one is the flatter Monmouth, Sourlands, 6 mile area tour, which means more faster.
TMHartshorneTM
I should also mention that things are going in a positive direction with regards to getting some meaningful work done at Hartshorne. It would seem that conversations I've had with fellow Park System employees has had some influence and I have even been asked for input with regards to work on the trails. I work on the golf courses for the Park System, thats my area of expertise. While I earn a living managing golf course maintenance and construction I've let it be known to the higher ups in the Parks my passion is cycling...mtbing in particular. Hopefully I can contribute something to get the trails in better shape, at this point I'm just taking it one step at a time and hoping for the best.
Please support me and the mtbing community by attending the Park System training class and supporting TM sessions at Hartshorne when you can.
Your pal,
Iggs
stay loose
no big ride today just kinda filler before I do the big century on sunday. its tough to get motivated to jra, especially by the end of the week when i just want to crank the tunes and drink a beer. i get pumped up to do interval work or ride for 5+hours, mtb is fun too. If it wasn't for Cathedral Pines motivating me to train I'd be a lot slower right now.
on my ride earlier i saw a guy getting a snow blower ready. i am going to go on record and say anyone who pulled a snowblower out and fueled it up is a douche. you don't use a snowblower in nj in october.
well it is the weekend and we do need to liven up a bit, things seem a little dead around here. For your audio and video pleasure.
no big ride today just kinda filler before I do the big century on sunday. its tough to get motivated to jra, especially by the end of the week when i just want to crank the tunes and drink a beer. i get pumped up to do interval work or ride for 5+hours, mtb is fun too. If it wasn't for Cathedral Pines motivating me to train I'd be a lot slower right now.
on my ride earlier i saw a guy getting a snow blower ready. i am going to go on record and say anyone who pulled a snowblower out and fueled it up is a douche. you don't use a snowblower in nj in october.
well it is the weekend and we do need to liven up a bit, things seem a little dead around here. For your audio and video pleasure.
I'm going to give the guy the benefit of the doubt and say he was fucking with his neighbors. Otherwise I agree, it's October. At least for a bit more.
Mare
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Yeah, that's my problem too...the accent. 🙂
Let's ride together soon and I'll do my best to chase you guys around. Well, I will think of you while you are already finishing lap 1 and I am about 1/2 way done.
Mare
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I am way behind since this happened a week ago, but I am so jealous!!! I want to kill it somewhere too.
mwlikesbikes
Well-Known Member
I gotta work on my fake accent. 🙄