Quote Originally Posted by teigyr View Post
o.m.g.....I'm kinda glad I had to work

Congrats though! That is a LOT of climbing. What grade of incline were the uphills?

Wow, just wow.
Next time, Teigyr, next time! It was a blast. You should come over for a ride some time. The second part of the ride, that 40 mile loop out to the lake, is a great ride: 40 miles, 2000 feet or so.

The routes I took this time have hills with almost all between 5-7%. There are some sections on the Ridge Road up to about 9%, but they are the minority, and there are no really steep pitches. It's pretty gradual...there just isn't much let up on that road.

On the second part of the ride, the loop, you can make it harder with a different route that has up to 14-15% pitches, but I didn't. I took the easier routes, nothing more than about7% or something. And, on the loop, the hills aren't very long. Maybe a mile or something for the longest.