Who's doin the tour de Pierce next Sunday
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Who's doin the tour de Pierce next Sunday
June 27th Tour de Pierce county washington. Start from the Puyallup fairgrounds. 13, 30 and 50 mile loops. Nice leisurely ride fun for the whole family. Look for me on my Windsor Tourist. I'll probably be in a killer green jersey or my Washington state jersey with Mt. Rainier on the front.
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Probably gonna do the 30 mile since it will be me the wife and my kid and the kids boyfriend
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Kpug and me rode the 50 this morning. It was a pleasant ride. There wasn't a lot of riders which was kind of nice. Riders were pretty friendly too. The 12 and 30 mile loops were family oriented. The first half of the 50 was very hilly. Lake Tapps Pkwy has a 1 mile long climb and 17-18% grade at the end was quite challenging. We did stay on our bikes the whole way up and passed a few riders walking their bikes. To the female rider riding the vintage Trek, you passed us like we were standing still.....you are awesome! Second challenging climb was from McCutcheon Rd. to Rhode Lake. A 1.5 miles long rolling hills with two 18-20% grade sections. After that the ride was like a walk in the park. Nice ride and probably will do this again next year.
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It was a good ride and a good day for it
I used gmap-ped to see the elevation profile of the route before I rode it. This isn't exact, but it's reasonably close:
https://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=3830888
I mapped the 30 and 12 mile routes on Gmap-Ped as well.
30 mi: https://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=3830915
12 mi: https://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=3830924
I was planning all along to ride the 50, but wasn't sure how I'd do. I'm a bike commuter (14 mi RT), and this was by far the longest ride I've ever made. I chose this ride for my first because I knew there were lots of opportunities to bail and take a shortcut back to the start. I'd do it again, but I'd probably recruit some friends to go along. And it's not the kind of ride I'd "travel" for unless it were to be with friends. In my case, the starting point is only 13 miles from my house. Got a ride to the fairgrounds and rode the bus and my bike home.
Talked to a couple of non-tour roadies near the end of the route. One of them bad-mouthed the ride a bit with regard to support and cost. Heck, it's a $12 registration (unless you want to buy a T-shirt), and it runs a circuit such that one of the two rest stops serves both out and back. For a community ride, I thought it was just fine. Reasonable snacks and plenty of fluids available. Don't know about mobile support, but there was a BikeTech repair unit set up at the rest stop.
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