Today, I explored sections of Sussex and Warren counties in NJ; thus, the title. Packing my bike into the Subie, I drove to a state park in Andover Township, parked at a trail head on US Route 206, and took off. In this part of NJ, I was only familiar […]
Read More →Fifty-three miles, 4300 feet of vertical gain, 3500 calories burned, one big bonk. Holy number cruncher, Batman. Last Sunday started out well, as I rode a now-familiar route to Jockey Hollow. Zigging and zagging to bag a couple of favorite climbs, I wended my way to Peapack to fortify myself […]
Read More →There are switchbacks on New Jersey roads, if you know where to find them. Lactic acid accumulation has always been an issue for me on the bike. Skiing or running, my body clears lactate easily. But cycling, I’ve always accumulated lactic acid at low heart rates. More than anything, this […]
Read More →Casting about on Sunday, I decided to walk the woods. Saturday’s skate roller ski session turned into a double pole session quick as I discovered that skating torques my knee in an unwelcome way. I wasn’t up for a bike ride. First because of the stress fracture and now because […]
Read More →On Wednesday I payed hooky and went for an overdistance ride on the new bike. Serendipitously, I found a used 58 cm Scott. With a compact crank, aluminum frame and carbon fork, it’s not fancy by any hardcore rider’s standard. But for me, it’s a big change. My antique, triple chainring […]
Read More →My sports medicine doctor still says, “No running” while I deal with this fracture. But as long as it’s moderate, I’m allowed to go for a walk in the woods. No big days in the Adirondacks over Memorial Day weekend. Likewise, I won’t be going on this year’s installment 0f […]
Read More →There I was in the doctor’s office as he held forth about injuries on the fracture spectrum. It’s not a stress fracture and not quite a hairline fracture. With the fractured cuboid bone in my foot, my sports medicine guy gave me leave to do anything I want. Except run. […]
Read More →With unseasonably warm weather continuing in my part of the world, I brought rollerskis to my in-laws’ place for Thanksgiving. They live, as my mother-in-law likes to say, in the back of beyond in Sussex County NJ, near where NJ, NY and PA meet.
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