Saturday ride report
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Portland Fred
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Saturday ride report
In the PNW, summer has been a total bust but today the forecast was decent so I went out for a solo century. Temp was 50°F when I left which was sweet for getting my blood pumping.
I decided to ride to the the top of Mary's Peak and back. From my house, that's 95 miles if you take the shortest route (I always extend it) with about 6K feet of elevation gain. It's not that much, but it's a good ride for pacing.
The road up Mary's Peak is downright gnarly right now. I've been riding it for over 10 years and today was the first time I saw more coyotes than humans. But that might be because road conditions where suboptimal.
I would say it was the best ride I've ever had on that hill except at 3900 feet, a swarm of deer flies descended on me. I don't know how many kids I fed to lions in my past left, but I paid for it today. Those ****ers really make life miserable.
After 10 min or so, I got away from the flies and eventually made it to the top. The view was great. My house is 4500 feet below and 50 miles in the background.
The way home was uneventful. Due to debris and dirt on the road, I had to go easy on the speed, and once I got to the bottom I had to deal with headwinds all the way home. No biggie. It's all good.
I decided to ride to the the top of Mary's Peak and back. From my house, that's 95 miles if you take the shortest route (I always extend it) with about 6K feet of elevation gain. It's not that much, but it's a good ride for pacing.
The road up Mary's Peak is downright gnarly right now. I've been riding it for over 10 years and today was the first time I saw more coyotes than humans. But that might be because road conditions where suboptimal.
I would say it was the best ride I've ever had on that hill except at 3900 feet, a swarm of deer flies descended on me. I don't know how many kids I fed to lions in my past left, but I paid for it today. Those ****ers really make life miserable.
After 10 min or so, I got away from the flies and eventually made it to the top. The view was great. My house is 4500 feet below and 50 miles in the background.
The way home was uneventful. Due to debris and dirt on the road, I had to go easy on the speed, and once I got to the bottom I had to deal with headwinds all the way home. No biggie. It's all good.
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Awesome, sounds like fun. I live in N. Idaho, and yeah, summer has been pretty lame, hasn't it? I guess I haven't really consciously realized it, but I've only been riding a LOT in the past month or so. Super lame, it's practically August, it'll be over before we know it.
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95 miles? What kind of bike you got? Also how long did it take you to get to where you could ride that far? I started back in febuary and was only able to go 12 miles, now I can go 30 miles at a faster average speed. Just curious thats all.
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I've never established distance goals so I never thought about working my way up. But I can say these distances are much easier than most people imagine.
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Another quick question. I am now going between 22- 30 miles with just one water bottle. What do you think I should I take with me to eat or drink if I went for a 50 mile ride .
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Generally speaking, you need 1-2 quarts of water per hour depending on temps and you should consume roughly 250 cal/hr.
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Did you only ride 95 miles .... or did you go around the block and get the full 100?
There's no way I could get to 95 and just stop. I've done numerous rides with several loops around the block at the end of the ride to get my full century in.
There's no way I could get to 95 and just stop. I've done numerous rides with several loops around the block at the end of the ride to get my full century in.
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I could have easily pushed it over 100 by taking the route through some hop fields near the end. However doing so would require me to miss a series of S curves on a hill that I'd been looking forward to and I didn't want to detract from the good miles by adding something I didn't care about. I also contemplated taking the route through a wildlife refuge, but I was there last week and thought I'd save that for another time.