Today I was missin' the bros Jaytron, Dan, and Jandro as I did my solo ride...

Today's ride (47 miles, 4240 feet elevation) : http://app.strava.com/rides/7946752

Friday night I downloaded a GPX file off mapmyride and dumped it into my Garmin. Then I set off on a journey to beat my old hawk hill record and trace the GPX route, which takes me up a local "mountain" (1300ft, Mt. Tamalpais).

First up was hawk hill. As I was crossing over alexander ave., I noticed a cyclist laying on the ground about 100 feet away, and a car turned at a 45 degree angle towards a double yellow. There was a man in red attempting CPR on the guy laying on the ground, and a crowd of cyclists surrounding. I did not want to venture any closer, so I kept my distance. I could hear sirens, so I knew the paramedics were on their way. This event came dangerously close to halting my ride, but I decided to take a run up hawk hill - 1.7 miles and 501 feet of climbing. I took it at a decent pace, as my head was still running wild with thoughts of that cyclist who was injured, and possibly dead. I beat my old time, and continued on with my ride.



The remaining route was interesting because it was completely foreign to me, and I didn't know what segments I'd encounter, when I'd start climbing, or how much I'd be climbing, so I just took it all at a decent pace. Eventually I came across a familiar climb I had done a few months ago and decided to give it a decent effort. Took a nice personal record on that one as well.



Part of the end goal of today's ride was to meet up with my girlfriend at John Muir woods and go for a hike. I took a bike and she drove, so at the destination, I was able to slip some jeans over the kit, threw on some shoes and went for a 3 mile walk through the woods.

I thought I'd share a few photos :





Near the top of mt. tam (I basically did a loop up and around this mountain) :



During the hike, I found an engraving on a bench I carved 4 years ago. Pretty damn cool that it's still there. I reinforced the "B" :



Sweet day overall. I ended it with some Jack in the Crack. Don't judge me.