Tuesday, October 6, 2009

MS 150 City To Shore Bike Ride - October 3, 2009

This was the third time I rode my bike in the MS 150 City to Shore Bike Ride. For me it's actually the MS "75" Miler as I ride ONE way only! DOWNHILL to the ocean! ha... And to clarify, we are talking bicycle, not motorcycle (Funny how many people assume it's motorcycles when I say "bike"!). I guess the NJ River Rambler REALLY should be kayaking down there, hmmm, interesting idea.

There were about 7000 bikes, so it was a sight to see, at the beginning anyway, in Cherry Hill at the Woodcrest Train station lot.  Maybe drivers on our route would say it's not a good sight, cause of the traffic tie-ups. 















I made a map with the exact bike route, shown below, not that you can get lost with all the volunteers and road markings, but just so you know how much farther you need to go to hit those two bridges on the north end of Ocean City, NJ. It was a challenge to make it over both bridges, without stopping, then really all downhill from there! 




This 29th annual event, is the largest two day bike ride on the East Coast and second largest in the country.  About $5,000,000 was raised for the fight against MS (thanks to those of you that helped me raise $350). 

I rode from approximately 7:30am to 3:30pm, so what's that, like 10 mph, counting rest stops?  It's a very well organized event, every mile had a marker, almost every pothole or rough road was spray painted to warn riders, and plenty of food and drink, at the five rest stops.  I did see the same amount of bike crashes as prior years, about 3 to 5, but it was mostly safe for the other 7,000+ of us.  It was fun and I plan on doing it again. 

Sunday, October 4, 2009

Top 64 Old TV Shows Bracket

We have a winner in the final match-up of the top 64 "old" TV Shows.  This show beat all competition, including M*A*S*H in the finals (but that was a close 7-5 vote). 

The best show as voted by the participants of the top 64 bracket?!?.... 

THE THREE STOOGES!!  (all six of them!)










You've seen an NCAA Basketball pool? Field of 64 teams? Well, I was talking with some people recently about some of the old TV shows that we watched growing up. I found this website http://www.crazyabouttv.com which brought back a lot of memories, and I put together the field of 64 TV shows Bracket. These were shows that I watched growing up thru the 1970's, so, no Seinfeld, etc...

Going to take one round at a time, by color group on the chart above, in a head-to-head competition. I'll post on here as each round begins and ends (a few days each round). So, let me know which shows you think win each specific "battle" (no going ahead to future rounds!), I'll just post the total vote counts for each match-up. I picked the 64 shows, but the color groupings and match-ups were random. If you click on each show name inside the chart, you should see a page with info about each show, to help you remember! Jump into any round you want, there's no right answers, and no prize. The more the merrier!

Guess The Music Bands - 2

See if you can figure out each of the five images, which music band names do the images represent? Scroll to the bottom of this post to see the answers.


Band #6




















Band #7














Band #8









Band #9

















Band #10















ANSWERS

Band #6 - Pink Floyd
Band #7 - Duran Duran
Band #8 - The O'Jays
Band #9 - Little Feat
Band #10 - Carol King