weekend ride reports - where'd ya ride?
06-18-11, 06:58 PM
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I climbed Snows Road in Camino. According to this site, it is rated the toughest climb in El Dorado County, with grades up to 20%. I had delayed attempting this climb for months because I can honestly say I've finished every road climb I've ever started, and I didn't want to break that streak by having to do the "walk of shame" because I have a fat ass. 
I was going to wait until I lost 20 more pounds, but I'm too impatient. I've been wanting to climb this since last year.
Full ride report, pictures, and my usual sufferfest video are here: https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...1#post12807198
I was going to wait until I lost 20 more pounds, but I'm too impatient. I've been wanting to climb this since last year.
Full ride report, pictures, and my usual sufferfest video are here: https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...1#post12807198
06-18-11, 10:34 PM
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Blasting around Chico this weekend. 35 mountain miles yesterday, flat 20 today, 35 more in the mountains tomorrow.
06-19-11, 10:48 AM
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Two bridges, three murder sites, squirrels and flowers ride with LanceOldStrong and MyLilPony. Complete with photos.
https://ccorlew.blogspot.com/2011/06/...der-sites.html
https://ccorlew.blogspot.com/2011/06/...der-sites.html
06-20-11, 01:30 AM
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Blue Lake - on the Scotts Valley Road loop - Lake County, CA.
40 miles - 20 out, 20 back, at a rate way too slow/embarrassing to publish. And it's virtually all flat, too!
Just a cell phone pic - but at least it happened.. ;-) :
Pretty, but warm - mid-to-high-80's.. (late start).
Just a cell phone pic - but at least it happened.. ;-) :
Pretty, but warm - mid-to-high-80's.. (late start).
06-20-11, 10:42 AM
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Frank! Good to hear fom you, my friend. BTW, "way too slow/embarassing to publish" is my middle name. 
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06-20-11, 03:31 PM
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After Saturday's sufferfest on Snows Road, I went up to Nevada City yesterday to watch and record the Nevada City Bicycle Classic criterium. I brought my heavy, low-end Trek 7000 WSD hybrid with rack, rack trunk, lights, and kickstand so I could carry my extra cameras, stuff I bought, and swag. I climbed about 720' just riding around trying to map out the course and find the best spot to record from.
Since I had another 2 hours before the start of the first race, I decided to explore Nevada City's climbs. Right away I found Red Dog Road, which was a long climb with grades up to 17%. It was a real sufferfest due to the bike I was riding.
After watching and recording the Masters men 35+/45+ 1,2,3,4 and Women's Pro 1,2,3 races, I was motivated to do another 1,200' of climbing. This time I found Willow Valley Road, which is another long climb with grades up to 15%. It also turned into a sufferfest near the end. Since I didn't know how long the road was, I turned around when the road leveled out right before another steep section. When I got home and looked at the map on my Garmin Connect page, I found out I was near the top. Damn!
Total amount of climbing recorded was 3,471'. It would be higher, but I forgot to start the timer for a while after watching the races. When I discovered that at the top of Nevada Street, I turned around and climbed back up to the same spot to fix that.
Here's the Garmin Connect data. Note the abysmally low average speed, partly due to time spent riding around the course trying to map it out: https://connect.garmin.com/activity/93643130
Here's the video of the sufferfest climbs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJH2aBrxiWI
Masters men race:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcS3ji2woAo
Women's race:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GmzO5o7dh4
The bike I rode:
Trek 7000 WSD at top of Red Dog Road climb by kittyz202, on Flickr
Bottles thrown by riders that landed at my feet:
A team car:
Top of climb at Main St. and E. Broad St. This is where I recorded from:
Since I had another 2 hours before the start of the first race, I decided to explore Nevada City's climbs. Right away I found Red Dog Road, which was a long climb with grades up to 17%. It was a real sufferfest due to the bike I was riding.
After watching and recording the Masters men 35+/45+ 1,2,3,4 and Women's Pro 1,2,3 races, I was motivated to do another 1,200' of climbing. This time I found Willow Valley Road, which is another long climb with grades up to 15%. It also turned into a sufferfest near the end. Since I didn't know how long the road was, I turned around when the road leveled out right before another steep section. When I got home and looked at the map on my Garmin Connect page, I found out I was near the top. Damn!
Total amount of climbing recorded was 3,471'. It would be higher, but I forgot to start the timer for a while after watching the races. When I discovered that at the top of Nevada Street, I turned around and climbed back up to the same spot to fix that.
Here's the Garmin Connect data. Note the abysmally low average speed, partly due to time spent riding around the course trying to map it out: https://connect.garmin.com/activity/93643130
Here's the video of the sufferfest climbs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJH2aBrxiWI
Masters men race:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcS3ji2woAo
Women's race:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GmzO5o7dh4
The bike I rode:
Trek 7000 WSD at top of Red Dog Road climb by kittyz202, on Flickr
Bottles thrown by riders that landed at my feet:
A team car:
Top of climb at Main St. and E. Broad St. This is where I recorded from:
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06-20-11, 09:36 PM
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Two bridges, three murder sites, squirrels and flowers ride with LanceOldStrong and MyLilPony. Complete with photos.
https://ccorlew.blogspot.com/2011/06/...der-sites.html
https://ccorlew.blogspot.com/2011/06/...der-sites.html
good stuff.
06-21-11, 12:25 AM
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06-22-11, 02:34 PM
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I did a short ride with a friend in Manteca on Saturday and took Sunday off as it was a bad day symptom wise. Monday, I sucked it up and did an out and back from my place in Modesto to Oakdale. Got in 31 miles. My longest ride (solo or otherwise) since my accident at the beginning of March. I also managed my fastest average speed on the route.
Today, my legs were fighting me. Hope they start behaving because I'm riding the track for the first time this weekend and I'm doing the LSC in Davis in a couple of weeks! (No way I can do the 70 mi I signed up for. I'll be doing the 45 mi route instead.)
Today, my legs were fighting me. Hope they start behaving because I'm riding the track for the first time this weekend and I'm doing the LSC in Davis in a couple of weeks! (No way I can do the 70 mi I signed up for. I'll be doing the 45 mi route instead.)
06-23-11, 05:54 AM
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The bike route map I got from the Visitor Center in Lucerne, on Clear Lake, calls it the Scotts Valley Loop (#2) - at the northwest corner of Clear Lake. This is it, at mapmyride: https://www.mapmyride.com/routes/fullscreen/8034460/
I did the full ride once, but only really liked the roads on the first half, so I do just that, out and back. Per the mapmyride page, my route is ref. pts. 19/20 .. 31 (where the pic was taken - at Blue Lake - a fishing/resort area) directly to 35 .. 37 to 1 .. 6 and then double back. The vast majority of roads are very lightly traveled, have rolling hills, and are through farmland in Scotts Valley and Bachelor Valley. The only section (about 2+ miles) that goes along HWY 20 is freshly paved and has a relatively debris-free medium-width shoulder.
Clear Lake is northwest of Sac. on HWY 20, east of HWY 101 and west of I-5, and quite a (car) ride from the Sierra Foothills.
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=clear+...ox-a&gl=us&z=9
There is a yearly ride in October, the Konocti Challenge, many routes of which partly or entirely circle Clear Lake itself. I need to work up to those kinds of distances - not this year..
I did the full ride once, but only really liked the roads on the first half, so I do just that, out and back. Per the mapmyride page, my route is ref. pts. 19/20 .. 31 (where the pic was taken - at Blue Lake - a fishing/resort area) directly to 35 .. 37 to 1 .. 6 and then double back. The vast majority of roads are very lightly traveled, have rolling hills, and are through farmland in Scotts Valley and Bachelor Valley. The only section (about 2+ miles) that goes along HWY 20 is freshly paved and has a relatively debris-free medium-width shoulder.
Clear Lake is northwest of Sac. on HWY 20, east of HWY 101 and west of I-5, and quite a (car) ride from the Sierra Foothills.
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=clear+...ox-a&gl=us&z=9
There is a yearly ride in October, the Konocti Challenge, many routes of which partly or entirely circle Clear Lake itself. I need to work up to those kinds of distances - not this year..
06-24-11, 08:47 AM
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After work with Lanceoldstrong by ccorlew, on Flickr
Just for the heck of it we climbed up the dead-end Old Briones Road off Alhambra. The road is awful, and pretty darn uphill, but you feel like your 500 miles and 75 years from the Bay Area.
06-25-11, 05:13 PM
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I think I caught Beaker with the DiabloSpyCam
06-25-11, 05:56 PM
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06-25-11, 06:07 PM
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Nice! Indeed you did - where was that? I started the climb with Ygduf, milliron and ericm979 - but they might have been too fast to snap 
Since Ygduf was on a mission for a threepeat, and I've had my fill of Diablo these last two months (8 climbs since the start of May), I did a nice loop from home to Diablo, then down through Blackhawk to Norris Canyon. There was an annoying headwind up that little climb that made for more suffering that it should. The eastbound descent of Norris was fun though, which was quickly balanced by the less fun experience of Crow Canyon to Castro Valley. Once I hit Redwood Rd, I made a quick pitstop at the Golf Course for a bottle refill and to chow down a honey stinger waffle. (Dayum those are good) I got a second wind going back up Redwood, climbed to Skyline and then home via Pinehurst - 82miles and a hair over 8,000ft.
My legs were feeling pretty good by the end, despite starting off a little stiff - I'd done some circuits with the Grizzly Peak Cyclists on Thursday and that trashed my legs better than any of the other rides I've done in some time.
Since Ygduf was on a mission for a threepeat, and I've had my fill of Diablo these last two months (8 climbs since the start of May), I did a nice loop from home to Diablo, then down through Blackhawk to Norris Canyon. There was an annoying headwind up that little climb that made for more suffering that it should. The eastbound descent of Norris was fun though, which was quickly balanced by the less fun experience of Crow Canyon to Castro Valley. Once I hit Redwood Rd, I made a quick pitstop at the Golf Course for a bottle refill and to chow down a honey stinger waffle. (Dayum those are good) I got a second wind going back up Redwood, climbed to Skyline and then home via Pinehurst - 82miles and a hair over 8,000ft.
My legs were feeling pretty good by the end, despite starting off a little stiff - I'd done some circuits with the Grizzly Peak Cyclists on Thursday and that trashed my legs better than any of the other rides I've done in some time.
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06-25-11, 06:11 PM
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BTW, you should check out Robocheme's new outfit soon - the all white look is spreading.
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06-25-11, 08:43 PM
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Diablo was thick with riders this morning... lots of Markleeville trainers. I got about 20 or 30 spycam photos on my blog.
06-25-11, 09:53 PM
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Started at my folks' place in Pleasanton and took Calaveras to Felter and down Sierra into San Jose. Hopped on the Los Gatos Creek Trail which I took to the Old Santa Cruz Highway, then down Summit Road and Old San Jose Rd into Soquel. Watched some unstoppable rock n roll machines in Santa Cruz with some old buddies, woke up, cured my hangover with a burrito, and then did the same ride in reverse.
06-25-11, 10:03 PM
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Looks like you've caught the whole crew.
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06-26-11, 01:18 PM
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I got my first top 5 this weekend. At this rate I will get enough points to upgrade right before the rapture day. 
06-26-11, 07:14 PM
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Went up to Auburn to explore a few climbs I haven't ridden yet. Rattlesnake Road was disappointingly easy, but there was a nice 14% private road off of Rattlesnake called Hayes Drive. It's short, but it's a good one:
Hayes Drive 14% grade by kittyz202, on Flickr
At the top of the Newcastle Road climb, I spotted three cyclists finishing their descent of Indian Hill Road. I noticed a Folsom Bike kit and a beard, and I thought "That must be JoelS". I bunny-hopped the curb and hauled ass over to the Valero just as they arrived. I yelled "Are you JoelS?" Right away he knew who I was, even though we've never actually met.
While one of the riders was in the store, JoelS and the other rider were nice enough to let me take this picture:
JoelS at Newcastle Valero 6-26-11 by kittyz202, on Flickr
Here's my video of Hayes Drive, the last part of Newcastle Road, and Crater Hill Road. JoelS makes his appearance at 2:45. I got dropped at Ophir Road, but it was fun while it lasted!
Garmin Connect data: https://connect.garmin.com/activity/95103145
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yzJFA6wsEg
After that I climbed Chili Hill, Crater Hill, Bald Hill, and Baxter Grade. By the time I got to Baxter it was getting hot, so it became a sufferfest.
I noticed my rear tire going soft on the gradual descent of Mt. Vernon Road. Luckily there was a nice shady private road to pull off onto, as there was no safe place to work on my bike on that part of Mt. Vernon.
The flat was caused by a tiny thorn that somehow made its way through the so-called flat resistant Specialized tire AND a Stop Flats tire liner. We have some tough thorns!
Here's some more pics:
Bottom of Rattlesnake Road at the north fork of the American River at Folsom Lake:
Crater Hill and Wise Roads:
fi'zi:k logo on Chili Hill Road (I already posted the one on Bald Hill Road back in April):
fi'zi:k logo on Chili Hill Road climb by kittyz202, on Flickr
What I hope to become some day when I lose the rest of this weight:
Hayes Drive 14% grade by kittyz202, on Flickr
At the top of the Newcastle Road climb, I spotted three cyclists finishing their descent of Indian Hill Road. I noticed a Folsom Bike kit and a beard, and I thought "That must be JoelS". I bunny-hopped the curb and hauled ass over to the Valero just as they arrived. I yelled "Are you JoelS?" Right away he knew who I was, even though we've never actually met.
While one of the riders was in the store, JoelS and the other rider were nice enough to let me take this picture:
JoelS at Newcastle Valero 6-26-11 by kittyz202, on Flickr
Here's my video of Hayes Drive, the last part of Newcastle Road, and Crater Hill Road. JoelS makes his appearance at 2:45. I got dropped at Ophir Road, but it was fun while it lasted!
Garmin Connect data: https://connect.garmin.com/activity/95103145
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yzJFA6wsEg
After that I climbed Chili Hill, Crater Hill, Bald Hill, and Baxter Grade. By the time I got to Baxter it was getting hot, so it became a sufferfest.
I noticed my rear tire going soft on the gradual descent of Mt. Vernon Road. Luckily there was a nice shady private road to pull off onto, as there was no safe place to work on my bike on that part of Mt. Vernon.
The flat was caused by a tiny thorn that somehow made its way through the so-called flat resistant Specialized tire AND a Stop Flats tire liner. We have some tough thorns!
Here's some more pics:
Bottom of Rattlesnake Road at the north fork of the American River at Folsom Lake:
Crater Hill and Wise Roads:
fi'zi:k logo on Chili Hill Road (I already posted the one on Bald Hill Road back in April):
fi'zi:k logo on Chili Hill Road climb by kittyz202, on Flickr
What I hope to become some day when I lose the rest of this weight
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06-26-11, 09:37 PM
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06-26-11, 10:06 PM
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One of these riders is closer to his lactate threshold than the other three. Can you tell which one, boys and girls?
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06-27-11, 12:25 AM
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nice pics! I'm pretty sure you guys blew by me on Saturday. Had a Levi gran fondo jersey on riding a Wilier