Monday, April 13, 2009

Two-fer gentle hill climb

So i'm realizing now that Map My Ride is great for thinking about and communicating routes but really bad at estimating altitude differences.

We had a fantastic twofer this weekend based around some sound principles:

1) Wake n Bike
2) eat light, but eat at good intervals
3) warm up before climbing
4) ride easy, the hills will make it hard when you hit em.


FANTASTIC results:

Saturday's Route

Beautiful and easy till that one hill



Sunday's Route

Check out the elevation profile on this one...looks gentle...the hill on bluff is constant and serious

1 comment:

Unknown said...

I want to do that big hill again because I haven't been that proud in a long time as when i finished it, but at the same time, I have a real fear of not being able to conquer it again.