Sunny November Rides

 

Although the weather has gotten colder as we get closer to winter there have been some sunny days that have allowed me to get some long rides in. At this time of year nobody wants to drive to far from home so all the rides have been local within about 10 miles of my house. In the last few Saturdays we have done rides in the 50 mile range and not too hilly. A few weeks ago we did my Jackson Wawa run and this week on a Friday ride we headed to Farmingdale. A couple of weeks ago we crossed over Rt1 on one of my stupider routes. 

Because of the pandemic it is easier to get across Rt1 so I have done that more often this year. Even through I have ridden these roads many times there are still things to discover. I tried to use a few interesting bike paths to do something different. We started off on the Trolley Line trail in West Windsor and then headed through Plainsboro to get to Rt1 and crossed at New Rd. On the way back we headed back across Rt1 at Harrison and through the old Sarnoff labs. 

There are a lot of cool little paths in NJ and there are more every year. One of my favorites it the LHT which is constantly being improved. I was off the day before Thanksgiving and did a 30 mile trail ride down to Trenton through Pennington and back along the LHT. It was a long ride for a mountain bike ride but I was trying to burn some extra calories before Thanksgiving although this years celebration involved much less food and people than normal.

I know that there will be some tough cold months ahead where it will be harder to ride for a couple of different reasons. However I know there there will always be a few sunny days that will allow me to keep riding until and getting together with the posse that will get me through the winter.

A Couple of Silly Rides

 

As this has been a stressful year for a lot of reasons I have tried to increase my silliness a little. So when Laura had a ride last Saturday on Halloween I decided to add a spiderweb to my helmet. It wasn't much of a costume but is was more than I usually do as I'm not a big fan of Halloween. 

 It was barely above freezing when we started the ride but it was sunny and once we got moving I was warm enough. We headed to Lambertville to see the Halloween displays but this year there weren't a lot of big displays so it was kind of disappointing.

This week I decided to do something flatter. The weather was much warmer and was close to 60 when we started so all I needed was a long sleeve jersey. We started in Bordentown and I invited Chris to join us since he lives so close. Chis always seems to have a small malfunction every time he joins us. This time he had a problem keeping his head, I mean helmet on so it took him a few minutes to fix it. 

Since it was a sunny fall day I decided to head to Robling for to get a view of the river. We ended up going down almost to the Burlington Bristol bridge. 

 

It doesn't smell real nice in this area kind of a mix of raw garbage, industrial waste with a hint of diesel fumes. We did see a few interesting things along the river. We saw an outside spin class. Not sure how they got all those spin bikes in the middle of the park but somebody got a work out putting them there. We also saw a couple of parks and marinas and this Eagle statue. 

Since Laura decided to be in the glass studio instead of joining us I sent the required middle finger pictures. It just a stupid thing we do. It wasn't one of my more created pictures. I originally planned to do it in front of a Trump sign but we couldn't find many of them for some reason...

After a few pictures by the bridge we headed out of town to the better roads in Jacksonville and Columbus on our way back to Bordentown. It felt good to run these roads on a warm sunny day after last weeks cold ride. I know that winter is coming so it was good to get one more warm ride in before that happens.