Yay BikerZ! You've come a long way baby! Isn't it grand to see progress.

Today's ride was a 30 mile loop that I prefer to do only in non commute hours. It heads out Deer Valley, a gorgeous road through the farmland, out to Marsh Creek and comes back on the highway 4 bypass. It's really out in the country, horses and cows everywhere, lots of orchards too. Deer Valley has no shoulders however and gets a lot of commute traffic. There are two hills on it and when Thom and I first started riding the tandem, those hills seemed so hard. I still use my little ring on them - that's why I have a little ring. But I spin up them with a much higher cadence now. BTW, I'm becoming a cadence watcher. That seems to me to be the best way to get faster for the Mt. Tam Double (why do they HAVE to have time cutoffs?) and not blow out my knees. Today's average cadence over 30 fairly flat miles (1000 feet of climb) - 91 RPMs with a high of 122.

V.