Trail maintenance+double session=Awesome Sunday!!

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So today was the first scheduled trail maintenance day over at one of south Jersey’s most popular riding spots, Allaire State Park. Allaire seems to be in a weather system all it’s own, and has been a great retreat from the wet and muddy parks up here in north Jersey where I live. With tons of awesome training miles put in there this winter, I decided to head down to give the trails some love back.

My day started bright and early at 6am, threw down a Met-RX and a Monster for breakfast, got my rake and shovels from the garage, threw the Paragon on the car, and headed to my boy’s house to carpool. We got to Allaire at 8am and started soon after hiking in and working on the trails. We built a new trail, flattened some ruts, and fixed a bunch of water holes. Surprisingly, the trails were in pretty good shape and we were all out in the lot by 11am. Time to ride.

Most of the guys were pretty shot from digging so only a small group of three went out to test our handy work. Having spent a lot of hours down there, some of the new lines took me by surprise leading to some eye-opening near-death experiences and one shoulder smash into a tree! We were out for about 2 hours when we finally decided to call it quits and head on home.

At home it was time for another Monster and some Blue chips with Salsa, yummy!

I sit down to check my email and I have an invite by my 24-hour team to hit up Chimney Rock this afternoon. It will be the first day of training for us as a team and “The Rock” is only a few minutes from my house, my legs are sore, but I’m in! We were all pretty excited to get some training in as a team, so we went through the woods like a freight train, but after another 2 hours of great riding, the miles were starting to set into my legs and it was time to go home. I couldn’t finish my day without getting some much needed calories back into me, the best way I know how, Taco Bell! A couple of Fresco bean burritos always hits the spot after some hard miles! Now to rest, tomorrow is another day…

-Jim.