Originally Posted by
Seattle Forrest
You did 100 miles with 1,414 of ascent? That's hard to fathom!
Originally Posted by
HTupolev
East Lake Sammamish and Sammamish River trails have an extremely long stretch of near-perfect flatness. By riding up and down it a few times, you could probably achieve a century with around 500 feet of climbing, maybe even less.
lol, I thought the same ... on both accounts. Just getting to Lake Sammamish and back home gives me around 600 feet of elevation gain. One lap around Lake Sammamish gets me up to 1250 feet. Four laps around the lake would get me close to a century with ~3300 feet of climbing ... from my front door ... YMMV.
Edit: I played some more with a route builder and if you drive to the start of the ELS trail and ride back and forth between Issaquah and Woodinville (just a point I picked, you could continue further), you can get a century done with ~1500 feet of gain. I’d die from boredom though before I finished it.