66 degrees!

I think Spring has sprung! We had a high of 66 degrees today! A very beautiful day to be on a bike. A few of us took full advantage of it too.

Dave, Lauren, and I commuted by bike over the Canby Ferry to Canby this morning where we would join 6 others for Training Series ride #7.

Here's the gang not far into our ride.


The TS route would cover 48 miles with a climb of Bird Hill. The views today were great.



Here some of us are, all smiles after our successful climb of Bird Hill!


After clarifying what the Training Series is a few of the slower riders decided to join some more casual rides that our club was offering today. It was a good day for those folks too, and it managed to pick our speed up a bit. After the 48 miles was done today I had a 16.6 mph on bike average. Not bad for a 48 mile route with 2533 feet of climbing.

Lauren and I took a bit of time to regroup and then took off on our own little bonus mile plan. We were aiming for 100 miles today. Our bonus route started off in Canby and brought us through New Era, Central Point, Carus, Beaver Creek, and nearly to Redland before turning back into Oregon City and crossing the Willamette River then climbing Pete's Mountain and returning to Wilsonville, our starting point for the day.
We had a surprise as we rode Maple Lane Rd. It was several miles long and a relatively steep climb. Here as Lauren nears the top she is out of the saddle and giving a good effort.


The climb of Pete's Mountain with 85 miles already under our belts was a bit tough on Lauren today.

But she was a trooper and kept the pedals spinning. Just what one needs to do on Race Across Oregon this July. She'll do just fine!

We finished with our century achieved with a 15.7 combined average. 6580 total feet of climbing. Burned 5677 calories but we took care of that with a post ride Mexican dinner.

Cold cerveza post ride sure tasted good!



............BIKE............LIFECYCLE.........TOTAL
Today......102................0................102
Jan........618...............0................618
Feb........692...............0................692
March......143...............0................143
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TOTAL.....1467...............0...............1467