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New Jersey Revisited (part 709)

Went to New Jersey again this weekend. Some triathlon club members joined me at my mother's house, since "we" (not I, but they) were down for the Philadelphia Marathon.

To be honest, Saturday is much a blur. We went into Philly to pick up race packets and such, then I nearly crashed. Sleeping with Lauie on Thursday night (and I do mean sleeping, not sexing it up) left me pretty run-down on Saturday. Somehow.

Sunday, though, was a very different beast. I rode my bike to the ocean.

The above is a forest of teeny-tiny pine trees. Brought about by frequent forest fires and infertile soil, these trees never grow more than 3-4 feet tall. Evolutionarily, they are better suited to survive in this section of Jersey, which gets almost no rainfall. More information about the Pygmy Forest can be had for the clicker.

I did finally make it to the Atlantic. I wasn't sure if I would...I looked at an online map at the distance from Tabernacle (my mom's town) to Barnegat, and it was 28 miles. Little did I know, it is actually an extra ~8 miles to Long Beach Island. So the total bike ride was somewhere around 72-75 miles.

After the ride, it was goodbyes to my mom and Jack, who were nice enough to let Keisuke and Kyoung Mi stay at the house on Friday night. While on the road, I quite randomly ran into them in a traffic jam on I-476.

Quite random to have such a thing happen on a narrow stretch of a 200-mile road...

Anyway, yes, my legs are a little stiff this morning, and yes I'll be going running this evening...

Posted by reid at November 24, 2003 11:48 AM | TrackBack