Catching up

Today's ride was billed as "It's going to be sunny, let's go ride some hills" and we did. 7 of us from my social bike group took off from Scholls Heights today heading to Oregon City, New Era, Canby, Pete's Mountain and back. It was a hard ride for me today. I looked at the cool temps early this morning and dressed too warmly, I didn't eat enough on the ride, and I've been doing a substantial amount of climbing in the last few days. Gee, is that enough excuses? ;-)

Our little group did manage to hold a 14.6 on bike average on a course that had 58 miles and 5233 ft of elevation gain. (with a grade to 20%)

My fellow riders enjoyed passing me numerous times today. I was just low on energy it seemed.




Lauren and Doak taking a breather after climbing a 20% grade!


We were not above taking an elevator to get some of our climbing in today.
In actuality it was to avoid a rather dicey section of road.

It was easy to know which side of the Urban Growth Boundary we were on at anytime today. Here Lauren pedals past verdant pastures in the New Era area.


After climbing Pete's Mountain we were rewarded with great views.


And being a social bike group and all, 5 of us stayed for snacks and visiting at Metro Perc after our ride.



............BIKE............LIFECYCLE.........TOTAL
Today.......58................0.................58
Jan........618...............0................618
Feb........521...............0................521
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TOTAL.....1139...............0...............1139