Long weekend at the Amish County and Cuyahoga National Park

Long labor day weekend mixing family, friends and sport. What else we can ask for?
less than a month for the IM in Barcelona Matt and I just start the last Mesocycle of our training plan. Before this one 8 crazy Mesocycles during the passed 12 month.
This 9th Mesocycle, maybe the most important one, is the one where we put everything what you did during the year to be ready, to be at 100% on a exact date (October 4th 2015). We start reducing the volume and give a bit of intensity on the sessions, more recovery between sets, more recovery during the week giving more quality to the sessions without losing the endurance.

Anyway, we ready for the weekend! ready to be out of Cincy and enjoy the beautiful places that we have around. We rent a house in Fredericksburg, a farm house in the middle of nowhere, just cows and cornfields said us hello. The perfect house for a Walking Dead episode.


Before the trip, run session: 1h set with a bit of intensity! No bad and ready to drive more than 3 hours till our destination, The Amish County.

With not many time for visits on Saturday we stop in an Amish Farm to see how they work and how they take care of the animals.
How fascinating to see all the farm animals specially how they take care of them.

The day is over and it's time for a good time eating the delicious meals that we bring from home, the perfect time to seat, laugh, discuss and enjoy with the company. We realize that no light is around us and how beautiful is the sky at night when no clouds or light pollution is present.

Sunday morning!!!! Time to start the party!
M&M woke up at 7 am and after a small and short breakfast we start riding towards the Cuyahoga National Park where the rest of the expedition will join us few hours later.

Was not an easy ride, rolling, stops, buggies with Amish going to church and hot and humid at the end. But is amazing that we rode for hours riding in parallel with no cars passing us. Also we take a trail for sport activities (bike, run, hike) that you can cross the state of Ohio from south to north without being in a road. No matters, we ride with the road bikes in the gravel but smooth trails, like we ride with MTB or CX bikes.
Arriving to the Cuyahoga National Park and start enjoying the wildness.
Strava Fredericksburg-Cuyahoga National Park
Family and friends start our hiking excursions visiting falls, rivers and cliffs

Perfect day for us: ride and hike with family and friends! What else in mind?

After two different trails visiting the park we return to our Walking Dead Farm and
Grill in the front porch good meat drink in g good beers as the Jovent 79 law say! haha

Labor day on monday we decide to spend our time visiting a Amish houses and school. We see how they live and how is their life's. After a good pit stop in an Amish restaurant we return to our nest in Cincy. A perfect resting day.


We always say that Jovent 79 it's more than a club, it's a family and we really are! Proud of it!