It's Sunday! Time for the JAR ride, so I'm out of the house
and on the way. Temperature was about 86 with 98% humidity
when we hit the trails at Mercer County Park in Trenton, NJ.
Yes, Trenton. That misunderstood state capital that was once
the capital of the United States. The same place George
Washington crossed the Delaware (you could pratically walk
across it in the Summer). Mercer County Park is actually one
of the largest "municipal" parks in New Jersey. Thousands of
acres and a huge lake in the
middle. It's as flat as a pancake! I think the water
grading of my house has more vertical. However, it
has some extremely technical twisty woods
singletrack.
We hit the woods hard and fast. The trail is dry and we are
flying! Within the first 10 minutes we've hit seven huge log-
overs. I'm much better at these than a year ago. In fact, I
complete every one including the the three foot - what's on
the other end - nightmare. I guess you need to make the
trail interesting when it's that flat. Within the next 20
minutes we see no less that 15 deer including a couple of
fawns. How cute until I realize I didn't put any deet on to
prevent the ticks! We hit the Blaire Witch Project with
tenacity. This is about 6 miles of twisty turny dark tree
covered singletrack. The turns are 320 dregrees and the
trees are so close you literally have to wheelie and turn
the bars sideways to fit through. I forget to do this a
couple of times slamming me into the tree and down into the
poison ivy. No worries, I'm immune - really. The others
weren't so lucky. They were already covered in it from last
Sunday's ride and this just enhanced their scratching.
We hit all of the trails on both sides of the lake and
completed twenty miles in just under two hours and fifteen
minutes. Not bad for a slowpoke like me. Back in the parking
lot it was now 92 degrees with 98% humidity. Our luck was
good, the ice cream truck was there to cool us down.
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