A little preride

I'll be leading a ride from Seattle to Vancouver BC this weekend and decided to preride the first section just to become more familiar with it.

I started from Queen Anne.

I rode down to Ballard where the ride will officially begin then backtracked through Fremont via the Burke-Gilman Trail.  I'd ride the BG all the way to it's northern end.

The sky was mostly clear, the temperature was comfortable, and there was a slight tail wind.

I reached the end of the Burke-Gilman Trail then turned onto the Sammamish River Trail.
At Woodinville I left the trail and began the 2 mile/500 ft climb to Maltby.  I turned around just a few miles past Maltby after talking to a road construction flagger.  I wanted to make sure that the work zone was passable by bikes.  It is.

After today's preride, I changed one short section of route, to avoid a busy urban street with a lot of turning traffic and no shoulder.  We'll be taking a parallel residential street.  It has a little more climbing and a little bit steeper grade, but that's just fine.

.......Road bike........Rollers.......MTB.......Lifecycle....Total
Today........64...............0..............0..............0..............64
Jan..........765.............0..............0..............0.............765
Feb..........248............0..............0..............0..............248
March......183...........0...............0.............0...............183
April........228...........0...............0.............0...............228
May.........200............0..............0.............0...............200
June.........199...........0...............26...........0...............225
July..........246...........0...............0.............0...............246
August.....502...........0...............0.............0...............502
Sept..........587...........0..............44............0...............631
Total........3158.........0...............70............0..............3228