Weather and riding were almost perfect this weekend. I wanted to do some hills so on Saturday I rode with Laura on her ride from Pennington to Stanton and back. She had a big crowd of 15 people. The ride ended up being 55 miles and the weather was great. It started out around 60 and sunny and ended up around 70 by the time we got back.
Stanton is just south of Round Valley Reservoir is and is more or less directly north of Pennington. In between are the Sourlands so it was a hilly ride. There weren't any killer hills but the usually Sourlands ups and downs. The route on the way out went through Cider Mill Rd which is one of the nicer roads in the area with a great view of the surrounding hills. I took the opportunity to take some pictures along the way.
Our rest stop was at Stanton General store home of the some of the largest muffins you will ever see. They have so many types its hard to decide what to get. I ended up getting a smores muffin which sounds a little strange but it was good.
On the way back from Stanton we explored a few different roads and saw some nice views of the Raritan river. The full set of the ride pictures can be found here. All in all it was a good ride and helped me do some hill training.
On Monday I went to the all paces ride. It was crowded as usually. There were already a couple of B rides being organized so they didn't need me to lead. Laura, Herb, Mike and a few others decided to just do something on our own. The only problem with this is that when we started riding out of the parking lot a lot of other peoples started following us. We ended up having a total 17 people and even picked up a couple of C+ riders when the rides crossed.
We had a good ride to New Egypt and back but what was suppose to be a small All Paces Munity ride ended up being the large All Paces ride that we were trying to avoid. I think for the July 4 All Paces I will try to do an adhoc ride from some where other than the park so this doesn't happen next time.
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