Today I led another of my weekly Training Series rides for the social bike group. On tap today was a 78 mile ride from Scholls Heights to Hagg Lake and back. Well, okay, we threw in a few hills for good measure too. ;-) In the 78 miles we accumulated well over 4000 feet of elevation gain with the help of Iowa Hill and Bull Mountain. We started out in late January with a ride of 15 miles with a goal of a 15mph pace. Most made the 15 miles, few made the 15 mph pace. Fast forward to today when this group rode out to Hagg Lake and made a lap of the lake with a 17.8 mph average. By the end of the ride (and the majority of the climbing) we still had a 16.4 average. Not bad at all for 2.5 months of training. These folks have a goal of riding Reach the Beach and/or STP. Looks like they will make it!
The weather was nice. The view of the lake was well worth the pedal out today.
The hills didn't seem as steep today. I guess that's a good sign. Here is Gary at the top of Iowa Hill ready for the fun descent.
My Race Across Oregon partner joined us today. Since we have bigger plans for the summer than RtB or STP our training was not finished when we got back to Metro Perc, NW Butts on Bikes sponsor and our start/finish point today. We grabbed a quick snack and hopped back on the bikes in search of our first century of the weekend. We pedaled out to Hillsboro and back, bringing our day total to 104 miles. We still had a 16.4 mph average when we finished up so all was good!
Tomorrow we both are riding centuries. Me in the Wilsonville, Molalla, Scotts Mills, Keizer, St Paul area, my partner in the Skyline area. We have an RAO team meeting with our crew late tomorrow afternoon so we can't tarry.
............BIKE............LIFECYCLE.....ROLLERS....TOTAL
Today......104................0.............0.........104
Jan........618...............0..............0.........618
Feb........692...............0..............0.........692
March......940...............0..............5.........940
April......299...............0..............0.........299
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TOTAL.....2563...............0..............5.........2568
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