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August 30, 2007 / Thursday
St. Joseph's Bump
Rode St. Joseph's Hill for the first time in almost a year tonight. I drove to Los Gatos, got ready to ride, waited for Kirk, waited some more, and waited, and waited...
Finally, he showed up and said, "I can't ride." He'd remembered his bike, but forgotten his gear. D'oh.
By then, it was 6:45, which meant I had a little over an hour of light. I was a few miles from the trail head, and I wondered whether I had time to ride to the top and back before it got dark. It took about 15 seconds for me to decide that I should at least try; after all, I was there, and ready to go.
Today's ride followed a similar route to the one we took the first time I rode SJH with Veronica. That time, I struggled on the first climb, and even more on the one halfway up the hill. Today, I just threw the bike into granny gear (I wasn't out to really push myself too hard; I just wanted a ride) and leisurely spun my way to the top. On all the stretches I had trouble with last season, I rode up them today thinking, "Huh, this is easy. Was I that out of shape last year?"
Too bad my HRM wasn't working. I would love to have compared today's heartrate numbers against a set from last season.
Hrm, where to ride next week?
August 30, 2007 09:03 PM | Mountain
Comments
"Granny gear", hah! That must be the gear I always ride in. (Alameda, remember!)
Posted by: Jennie at September 7, 2007 04:02 PM