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June 04, 2007 / Monday
Lake Chabot Bike Loop
Between a trip to SF and my hockey game yesterday, Aaron and I squeezed in a ride around Lake Chabot. The bike loop there runs 12.4 miles around the lake and has some decent downhills with some not-too-nasty climbs. We managed to ride the loop in 14.6 miles. Wrong turn, d'oh!
Actually, the wrong turn turned out to be a good thing. In addition to gaining some fun downhill, we got to ride our way back up on the Ten Hills Trail, which, as the name suggests, is comprised of a series of up and down hills. The hills were just short enough that I could stand and grind my way to the top of each one. I got a lot of practice climbing out of the seat, something I hadn't done successfully before today.
The right knee bothered me a bit between miles 4 and 8, but felt fine the rest of the time. We finished the loop in just under two hours, which left enough time for a pit stop at Jamba Juice.
I'm glad we finished the loop, but didn't like the pressure of having to return by a certain hour. It would have been nice to just ride wherever we wanted without concern for the clock. I'll have to plan better next time.
June 4, 2007 01:54 PM | Mountain
Comments
I do this ride from time to time. The first time I did it by myself and got lost. 22.4 miles it ended up being. I was gettin' over being sick and super cabin fever - so I started it super spontaineously - like at noon. (nice hot day) it was brutal. but awesome.
Posted by: christy at June 4, 2007 09:20 PM
Ouch, that's a lot of getting lost.
Posted by: Viv at June 4, 2007 09:25 PM