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Intro

If I could pick anywhere to live in NJ it would be the West Milford area. The lakes are larger, the mountains and bears are bigger, and the weather is a bit cooler. The fact that you have Wawayanda, Ringwood and Jungle all within miles of each other makes this a special place. I guess it’s a grass is always greener thing. Maybe I would miss the flatlands of Allaire and Hartshorne…I’m not sure. What I am sure of is I love the trails up north.

Jungle cat 1 40-49 Recap


This is my 8th race of the year, as usual I make arrangements to cruise in with some teammates to the venue. Me, Clapper and Kirt meet at the DD in Booton and continue onto Jungle. Kirt has the perfect safari wagon, it looks just like the one for the Jungle Habitat logo.

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With a10:30 start we have plenty of time to get our reg. numbers, kit up, bullshit with others and warm up before the start. Me, Clapper, Kirt, Falco and 26er take about a 20 minute warm-up then amble back to the start area. We line up in our age cats. And at the sound of the horn we are off.

The really fast guys take off and I am in the back third of the pack sitting in about 14th position. My teammates Kirt and Norm are up ahead of me. Pre-ridding the course twice as well as having put in a bunch of miles over the winter at various trails with lots of rock improved my tech skills greatly from last year.

Utah comes up behind me at the top of Otter and tells me he is leading in the 30-39 cat, I slide over to let him by and cheer him on. Mike Merrit is not far behind Joe and Mike passes me but I repass him a little while later. Mike is a strong rider but is struggling due to the fact that he’s never ridden Jungle.

Even though I’ve ridden jungle more then Mike I still mangaged to fall in front of him at the top of boon before the descent. He asks if I’m ok and we ride on together. On the 2nd lap of Warthog Mike begins to fade and I finish out lap 2 alone.

On lap three I catch a glimpse of Kirt ahead of me in Warthog. He calls out to me to come on and for the next 4miles we work together for a strong finising lap, with me pushing Kirt and him pulling me to the line. Kirt crosses the finish 10 seconds ahead of me, making this my best finish at Jungle ever. 10th out of 22.

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I'm not sure if anyone is reading this crap anymore or I feel like a zombie left over on the internets. I think some peeps are reading this, in any case I'm going to keep posting. There is not much going on these days here or on fb. I want to tell people to fuck off, stop posting pics of you're dog on fb...but if i did I would have even less to keep me entertained. Oh, and I ordered a new Dell computer. After I ordered my wife asked me why I got a Dell, then she told me they are slow and I should have gotten a Mac...no lie.

Let me give you my bitchin recap of this week, it really is pretty diverse. I am going to thow Jungle race in there even doe it was on Sunday, it paints a better picture.

Sunday- ride mtb fast at Jungle.

Time: 1:44:46
Avg HR: 162 bpm
Max HR: 175 bpm


Tuesday- do hills son. Met Norm, Utah and Falco at MTBNJ HQ for 2:30 of hill seeking. Norm took us on all these climbs, I think there was like 8 of them and he was pushing to get some KOM's. This was good training for me, I would never do that much climbing on my own in one ride on purpose. I was not fully recoverd from Jungle, so toward the end it felt like an endurance ride. This profile tells it all, my HR graph has the classic saw tooth profile. After the 2hr. mark you can see my body said fu.

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/181820654


Thursday- Ok, I've been in Jungleland, the hills of Somerset so now it was time to swing down to the jersey shore to check out the ocean. This was my tempo ride after work.

Distance: 61.30 mi
Time: 3:00:06
Avg Speed: 20.4 mph

I started in Upper Freehold and made my east to Pt Pleasant/Belmar then back to the west. Like the Hills ride on Tuesday I did not feel fully recoverd but I was good enough to put in a tempo pace. My HR avg. was way down which indicates that my body was tired. My avg. speed was on for a tempo pace which indicates that I had power. I would not be able to do intervals but tempo was manageable.

Today I'm gonna go out and spin at recovery pace for about an hour, I need it after a week of race, interval and tempo work. Then I need to drink beer but will not be able to since I have to drive to soccer tonight. I remember one time I brought a couple beers with me to J's soccer practice, the other dads looked at me like I had a problem...my only problem is having soccer practice at 8:00 on a Friday night. those dudes are fags.
 
Im still reading.

Hopefully I'll see u Tuesday at the MTBNJHQ. Do hills son. (It's funny me calling you son)
 
Yeah I still read too. The forum is slow. I understand it now, as the holiday weekend usually has people giddy to GTFOO work and head home to drink beer and throw jarts at neighbors they don't like. The board will be dead for like 3 days. Summer is often a bit of a lull.

Facebook has really gone lame IMO. They say a picture is worth 1000 words, but I have news for some people. A picture of a beer is worth exactly 1 word: BEER. I mean, get a little creative, right? Like Jeremy with the beer & baby bottle. See to me that's good. It suggests that while laboring through the mundane weekly drudgery and relying on beer to survive, he can still remember to feed his child.

I know I'm guilty of it too. But I think it really struck me last night that Facebook is really just a series of people posting beer pics. I think there needs to be more to it. And why does almost nobody write anything about the pic? Our society has such a short attention span.

20+ mph today is impressive, flat or not.
 
I've gotten a lot of miles out of that pic. (Attached for non facebookers)

I should take another where the beer is empty but the milk is full. Than what would you interpret?
 

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I too still read. Commuting just didn't happen for me this week and with BS50 approaching I have become less prepared. Oh I also just found out that my weekend has just been delayed for 6 more hours. Take this job and shove it fuckers. Hopefully the NYC to Pocono parade should be over.
 
Norm said:
Nothing, I already know you're a drunk. BOOYAH!

Fuck I need to get out of this office.
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Yea really. I'm tired of assholes trying to get shit done the Friday afternoon before a holiday weekend. It's pointless. Even if you get it done, you have to repeat everything all over again on Monday anyway.
 
You know another thing I hate on face book.. these idiots who post the pics “This man risked his life for your freedom. Respect him” and they have some pic of some poor Vet with half his face burned off. First of all, half those pics are photo shopped. Second, are they trying to guilt you into liking this so they can get a lot of “likes”? What a bunch of fucking losers. Facebook is so full of narcissistic assholes. But god damn if I don’t check it like 30 times a day.

I also hate these acronyms (I know.. abbreviations) hashtags. I never know what the hell these people are saying. It took me 2 weeks to find out that #SMH means shake my head. How about don’t abbreviate, how about write it out so I don’t have too google your hashtag to know what the hell you’re talking about. Stop HBA. (that’s hiding behind acronyms (or abbreviations) for all you simple simpletons)
 
I think you meant Tuesday. Oh I'm still here too. Empty beer and full bottle could be seen as a major mess up actually.

Down with FB as I've been saying for years. Note: by down I do not mean "down with it like being hip"
 
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You know another thing I hate on face book.. these idiots who post the pics “This man risked his life for your freedom. Respect him” and they have some pic of some poor Vet with half his face burned off. First of all, half those pics are photo shopped. Second, are they trying to guilt you into liking this so they can get a lot of “likes”? What a bunch of fucking losers. Facebook is so full of narcissistic assholes. But god damn if I don’t check it like 30 times a day.

I also hate these acronyms (I know.. abbreviations) hashtags. I never know what the hell these people are saying. It took me 2 weeks to find out that #SMH means shake my head. How about don’t abbreviate, how about write it out so I don’t have too google your hashtag to know what the hell you’re talking about. Stop HBA. (that’s hiding behind acronyms (or abbreviations) for all you simple simpletons)
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That's a great post. This is going in.

If I see SM_, I always say Suck My [make up a word]. H = hog.
 
I'm still checking in, Iggy. I'm the guy that reads everyone's blogs but rarely ever responds.

I'll see if I can come up with a creative beer picture tonight. Perhaps, I'll invite the beaver over for a few cold ones.
 
capedoc said:
I'm still checking in, Iggy. I'm the guy that reads everyone's blogs but rarely ever responds.
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^THIS^

I too still read but if I have nothing to contribute I just don't reply (usually) and the same with FaceWorldTube...

actually FaceWorldTube has me inspired to establish a movement to be known as 'Filter Free Friday' where everybody replies honestly to all the drama queens, duck face/booty pics, and utter silliness that floods your wall... good times 😀
 
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I'm still here, old man. I just don't have much to add about racing, family, weed, and golf courses.

But I'm still with ya.
 
My cry for attention worked, thanks for checking in everybody.

Soccer practice was cancelled tonight, YA!! It was nice to sit in the backyard with the wife and kids and enjoy pizza on a Friday night.

My spirea is looking really good this year, the snow wacked it back the year before. Also the fig leaf table cloth is the perfect complement to the colors of my Heineken.

Merry Christmas.

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yeah I didn't really set up this shot, it was kinda throw the can down on table and snap it. I wanted to get spirea in background, I did manage to do that. + figs are more of a late summer motif, but you gotta just roll with it.
 
in order to catch a gopher you have to think like a gopher, strava will get u no where.
 
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