I had a really terrible ride, I set a new personal worst record for distance covered in a period of time.

About 35 kms in 3 hours!!

I set out from my front door and rode up to the Kettle VAlley Railline, rode the rail line from the Myra to Ruth stations and then back down the Little White access road back to my place.

The access road up is an old logging road, 8 km of gravel, washboard, VERY steep grades and periods of walking.

The gravel gets deep in the washboard ruts and when the road turns really steep you just lose forward momentum, you walk until you can get further up a bit to where you can get the pedals turning again.

First two pics are the route profile ( note the gradient info in the HUD window) and the route "map" from GPS , including the part where I confused it going through the tunnels.

I enjoyed this a great deal, I hurt something fierce at the end of the ride though.


Link to the pics - here .........

http://picasaweb.google.com/2manybikes/ARideOnTheKVR02#