The Middletown Breaks

After really smoking my legs on Sunday's ride in Wolfsville, I decided to just do a short ride to give my legs an easy recovery spin. Middletown is an area I have hardly touched at all in my big project so I drove over Braddock Heights and down into the Middletown Valley, parking at the local park.

About halfway into my planned ride, disaster struck. I was standing up cranking up Green Street, when I heard a "ping" and the bike got wobbly. I though I had broken a spoke, but it was worse. The frame broke at the seattube/bottom bracket lug. Bummer. I walked and gently coasted back to the parking lot and my truck and sadly headed home.

20070730_01Typical cul-de-sac in this neighborhood. The houses seemed really crammed together without much yard.
20070730_02Just beyound the development is countryside, rising uo to Braddock Heights.
20070730_03Downtown Middletown.
IM003203Just when I was having fun. Disaster.
20070730aToday's Map.
20070730bToday's Profile.

Roads Completed 7/20/2007.
Road Name ADC Map GridSubdivision
ALI DR 19-J-13FOXFIELD
ARI CT 19-K-13FOXFIELD
ASHKY CT 19-K-13FOXFIELD
BUSSARD DR 19-E-13N/A
CAROLINE DR 27-H-1 WOODMERE NORTH II
CONE BRANCH DR 27-H-1 WOODMERE NORTH II & FOXFIELD
CRONE LN 19-K-13FOXFIELD
DERR LN 19-K-13FOXFIELD
EVERHART LN 19-K-13FOXFIELD
FOXFIELD PASS27-H-1 FOXFIELD
GARAGE DR 19-E-13N/A
GLADHILL DR 19-J-12FOXFIELD
GRAY FOX CT 27-H-1 FOXFIELD
EGREEN ST 19-F-13N/A
WGREEN ST 19-F-13N/A
GROFF CT 19-K-12FOXFIELD
HOFFMAN DR 19-K-13FOXFIELD
IFERT DR 19-E-13N/A
NJEFFERSON ST 27-F-1 N/A
JESSERONG DR 19-E-13N/A
KELLER LN 19-K-13FOXFIELD
KOOGLES DR 19-E-13N/A
LAMAR LN 19-K-13FOXFIELD
LAUGER CT 19-K-13FOXFIELD
LAYLA DR 19-K-13FOXFIELD
MANDA CT 27-J-1 FOXFIELD
MANDA DR 27-J-1 FOXFIELD
MARIAM PASS27-J-1 FOXFIELD
MARTHA MASON ST 27-G-1 N/A
MINA DR 19-J-13FOXFIELD
RHODERICK CIR 19-K-13FOXFIELD
ROD CIR 19-J-13FOXFIELD
SANAZ CT 27-J-1 FOXFIELD
SARA LN 19-K-13FOXFIELD
SMITHFIELD DR 19-K-13FOXFIELD
STINE CT 19-K-13FOXFIELD
SUMMERS DR 19-E-13N/A
WILES CREEK CIR 19-E-13NORTH POINTE
WILLOW ST 19-E-13N/A
WOODMERE CIR 27-H-1 CONE BRANCH

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