Great ride after work yesterday. Jennifer took me on a 26 mile loop from Soler-Tri Sports, up SH 211 to Bandera, back to Soler. I knew I was in for a serious work-out when I found out she asked others how long they had been riding before they tackled that track!
211 is basically a patch of highway that has four gradient "steps" that stretch for about seven miles, so each hill is about 1.5 miles long with 1/4 mile plateau between. The hills are long but not terribly steep. At the end of the last incline is an awesome, 1/4 mile descent that had my Cat Eye speedometer registering 30.1mph at the fastest point, which was fun, except as soon as you get to the end of the hill you make a sharp right onto Bandera and IMMEDIATELY start a brutal 1/2 mile uphill that feels like you are pedaling through crank-deep molasses. My legs were on fire! I had to stand up in my pedals to make it up the hill and i couldn't have been going more than 2mph the whole way. It was a long, tough ride but I surprised myself. I think I kept up fairly well and I didn't have to dis-mount even once to make it up any of the inclines.
I feel bad because after the ride all i wanted was a shower, some food and sleep so I didn't get to clean the "Dragon", but I will make up for it after dinner tonight and give my poor bike the wipe down she deserves, and after that we'll start planning for this weekends ride..... The adventure continues.
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