recap #1
JORBAfest was the best!!!! Thanks to EVERYONE involved and who showed up!!! Really dug meeting everyone from the board here, Lenoski is one helluva rider (I couldn't duplicate any of his moves on the trail, but I cleared some nasty rock sections in his honor), was riding for the skinnies comp but I'm sure that was cool, the human vise sure can "vise" things that was fun, and man was there a ton of bike porn there (drool). I rode both the first advanced intermediate ride and the second intermediate ride and really dug both of them, I've done ten mile climbs before, but they were nothing compared to a mile and a half of the steeps at "the Mooch", really grinded out the granny gear on a few climbs, especially on the second ride when my legs were already spent. I think I held my own on the rides, and doing it on the old rigid bike with the "semi slick" knobbies from 2000 was a real hoot.
I too want a JORBAfest every other week, but can't wait until next year. Luckily, I won't have to wait a year to get back to Allamuchy, cuz that place rocks. The 501 Crew represented well on the rides, and I think we showed that us Allaire cats can climb as well as flow, haha. Again, thanks everyone for the good times and the good vibes, it was sooooooo worth it. And to the guy that cleaned up on the raffle, he owes me some of that schwag, cuz I didn't win C-rap, ha. I'll post what few pics I got later, I didn't get any ride pics as any down time I had on the trail, I used for recovery or running my mouth with some of the peeps, nice meeting ya Manny, the only other guy to do both intermediate rides, I think.
PS- I didn't thin the ride length to miles done ratio was going to add up going into this event, but after riding some of the climbs and the sheer number of riders, it seemed to time out just perfect and I was toast by the end of the day.