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No sweeping views of mountains galore, but Iowa has hills!
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Figured I better put on some pics for once. This was Monday's ride. Rode gravel about 17 miles to Whiterock Conservancy and then took a couple mtb singletrack trails up in to the hills, and then made my back home via a little highway (and tractor pulls lol) and the endless 8-11% gravel rollers. ~51 miles and my legs still hurt :/ pretty awesome morning tho!
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12% grade...
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Figured I better put on some pics for once. This was Monday's ride. Rode gravel about 17 miles to Whiterock Conservancy and then took a couple mtb singletrack trails up in to the hills, and then made my back home via a little highway (and tractor pulls lol) and the endless 8-11% gravel rollers. ~51 miles and my legs still hurt :/ pretty awesome morning tho!
Fantastic rolling gravel around there with the middle raccoon river valley.
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We recently had a serious microburst here. One my local favorite woods roads had a bunch of trees downed. Still a nice ride.
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My first bonified gravel ride. Only 35 miles with 4k elevation gain, but I was tired puppy!
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Where is that? Northern Rockies?
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See above.
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'Only' 35 miles with 4K of climbing. And it was your first gravel ride? And it was on a mtb? Yeah, there's nothing 'only' about that. Great start
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Somewhere south of Issaquah. First rainy ride of the season. I hoped this went through, but it didn't.
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Pony Express 120 Gravel Dash in Marysville, KS this past weekend. 125 miles actually, 7000+ feet of climbing (according to my wahoo). 6th place in the men's open, 8:47 total time. Didn't really feel great all day but it was a fun, challenging course with that was much tougher than it looked on paper.
Also, was glad that my Simpsons pink donut jersey arrived in time for the ride
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PS I grabbed these shots from the Pony Express Gravel Dash facebook page -- photo credit is watermarked on the shots. I'll purchase them once I get purchase info.
Also, was glad that my Simpsons pink donut jersey arrived in time for the ride
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PS I grabbed these shots from the Pony Express Gravel Dash facebook page -- photo credit is watermarked on the shots. I'll purchase them once I get purchase info.
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Oh... and do it soon, before the beetle kill reaches here. You dont have long.