February 3 Rides

[jobob]

The climb from miles 20-30, which was Calaveras Road, wasn't steep - it averaged about 5%, and very rarely got over 6%. The quick drop at about mile 30 is the Calaveras Wall, which is roughly 12-15% for a half-mile (but we went down it)

Past mile 30 was the climb up Felter Road, which is the "easy" backside of the Sierra Road climb (a Cat. 1 climb on the Tour of California). Felter was about 4 miles with a big chunk of it over 10% - in places it was about 15% Luckily the steeper sections didn't go for very long. There were also some conviently located flat sections where we could get our heartrates back to almost normal. Once Felter Rd. became Sierra Rd. the climb was more gradual rollers for the last mile or so.

(In contrast, the climb up the Sierra Road side basically goes up nonstop, and averages about 12% for about 3.5 miles and in many places kicks up to 20%. gah. We'll do it though.)