Originally Posted by
DScott
Yes, that's it.
Kidd, I'll try to post a map later, but you can google for "simi ride" and on the first page their should be a mapmyride of the general route. It wasn't exactly what I did, but was close.
Also, regarding 7 min hill, that time was from the start of the ramp up (there was a dip at the start) to where it was maybe about 1% or so, where I had basically stopped pedaling. Stop to stop was probably closer to 8 min. I would call that a "medium" effort. A hard effort like on Norwegian or Potrero would have taken at least a minute off I'm sure.
DScott, I read about your Potrero adventure in the other thread. The part of potrero that you did is much steep but the speed we were going made up for the difference! Also of note, from the top of Potrero to Westlake Blvd, I averaged 27mph...
After looking at your graph, plus reading the report - based on my familiarity of at least part of that route (Cornell, Mulholland, 7 min), and my known climbing times of some similar routes, I'm gonna guestimate that I'd probably be riding somewhere close to the middle or lower middle of the group during most of the ride. With a nice solid group flying along on the flats doing some paceline work and holding line on moderate climbs, I'd probably graze the 20 mph average. But not if I had to do any hard chasing solo stuff like you did.
So, based on this first experience, are you interested in doing it again?