Mar 24 & 25: East Bay "rides du jour..."

[spazzdog]

OK... thanks bikerz.

That "splains a lot" to this Lucy. How does one figure out "gradient" (if there's a thread, excuse this drift)?

Y'all have a good ride today.

spazz

[spazzdog]

Am waiting for the gloom to glow and the temps to rise... hopefully by noon. If that happens, I'm off for a ride.

Plan is to ride from my place in Oakland to Lafayette. The route, approx 15.7 miles, ?? feets of climbing:

East (??) on Piedmont to Pleasant Valley.
Right on Pleasant Valley
Left on Moraga Ave
Moraga becomes Mountain BLvd
Left onto Snake (though the map indicates Merced which runs into Snake)
At fork of Snake and Shepherd Canyon, stay straight-ish onto Shepherd
Left onto Skyline
Right onto Pinehurst - twist and turn through that, then
Left onto Canyon Rd
Canyon Rd becomes Moraga Rd
Right onto St. Mary's
Right onto Hope Ln

Call friends in Lafayette to come retreive my body

I suppose if this works out and I get fitter, this could become an "out and back" for a 30+ mi route.

How crazy is this one girls?

spazz-o-directionally-impaired

[snapdragen]

Sounds good to me. But then I just killed myself doing 5 miles..... I am out of shape.

[spazzdog]

How "bad" is Snake? If any of y'all know...

Snap you wanna ride with me? We can be-achh and kvetch the whole way

I'm thinking this one will have to wait... I await the warm and sunny weather. I went out to walk the doggie and it's too chilly for me on this side of the hills anyway.

Maybe we can get a group up to ride this the weekend after Cindy??

[bikerz]

How "bad" is Snake? If any of y'all know...

Snap you wanna ride with me? We can be-achh and kvetch the whole way

I'm thinking this one will have to wait... I await the warm and sunny weather. I went out to walk the doggie and it's too chilly for me on this side of the hills anyway.

Maybe we can get a group up to ride this the weekend after Cindy??

Snake is hard! (I've only gone down, and it was scary - I can't imagine up...)

I would get up to Skyline via Broadway and Old Tunnel Rd, then it's just a little while on Skyline until you hit Pinehurst.

[spazzdog]

I'll check it out (on the map). Thanks bikerz!