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Start: Newark Penn Station. Finish: Branch Brook Park Distance: 4 miles, climbing 192′.
Start: Branch Brook Park. Finish: George Washngton Bridge. Distance: 17.54 miles, climbing 849′.
Description
Branch Brook Park is a great local bike racing venue.
It’s even better when you ride from the race venue in Branch Brook Park over to the George Washington Bridge and then home.
Maximizing TSS with a local race
1. Warm up on the ride to the train and then from the train to the race.
2. Race hard.
3. Have a light snack, refill water bottles.
4. Ride home. This is just adding fatigue, burning calories, getting nice and empty, so you can eat a bigger meal, recover harder, and get stronger.
You know about Branch Brook, right?
Newark’s Branch Brook Park has hosted bike races for at least 50 years. The course is flat, winding, fast, and fun.
It’s also a very easy race to get to from New York City without a car. You just need to know the NJ Transit train schedule. Don’t forget directions from the trains.
And, as this typically a “training race,” you might as well put in some miles afterwards to do some more fat-burning, or just pile on the caloric deficit and make it a full day of riding.
This ride can be combined with NJ17, so you can go from Newark to the race, and then from the race to the GWB. Then home.
To Get Home…from Branch Brook to the GWB
Branch Brook to GWB directions is a ride takes you from the registration area for bike racing in Branch Brook Park to the New Jersey Side of the George Washington Bridge. the ride has a few early hills, then it’s pretty much flat until you have to take a steep mile-long climb up the Palisades. The hill is big, but the ride is nearly over, so you can surely find the inspiration to climb it no matter how dead the legs. Despite this ride being through densely-packed suburbia, it’s actually pretty quiet. The roads don’t feel busy until the end.
Particulars Branch Brook to GWB
Start: Branch Brook Park, Newark, NJ
Finish: George Washington Bridge, Fort Lee, NJ
Going through: Essex, Bergen Counties.
Distance: 17.54 miles.
Climbing: 849′
Includes: a PDF with intelligence and a GPX files to upload to your bike computer or mobile device. A how-to can be found here. The PDF prepares you for the route and can be glanced at, printed out and/or uploaded to your mobile device. The GPX are to be uploaded into your bike computer or mobile device so you can let the machine give you the directions as you ride along.
Branch Brook to GWB Directions are there.
