Tierra Bella Century?

[melissam]

No worries Mel, it's not remotely same.

Have fun, it's supposed to be lovely out tomorrow!

[Hijack ON]
I had a blast -- Old La Honda is gorgeous! My only regret is that I waited so long to ride it. I ended up doing the whole thing in my middle chain ring; I'd heard somewhere that it got really steep at the end, so I wanted to have the little chain ring in reserve in case I was suffering at the end.

Jobob, hope you a great time on your ride. You had a pretty long ride picked out!
[Hijack OFF]

Speaking of Tierra Bella, I'm considering doing the double metric. One of my riding buddies has a ticket for the double metric but will be out of town that weekend. Does anyone know what the double metric route is like?

-- Melissa

[jobob]

Does anyone know what the double metric route is like?

[wizeazz ON]

Uh, long?

[/wizeazz OFF]


Here be the route descriptions:

http://www.tierrabella.org/route.html

[jobob]

BTW, glad you enjoyed Old La Honda, Mel!

[snapdragen]

Now I'm really jealous. Mel used to be a bike potato like me. Now she's all ALC'd up and spinning up hills.

[melissam]

Now I'm really jealous. Mel used to be a bike potato like me. Now she's all ALC'd up and spinning up hills.

Snap, if anything, it should give you hope. I mean, if I can do it, anyone can do it!

[Bike Goddess]

Melissm-

A couple of guys from our club went down to Morgan Hill and rode with some other folks on the newer version of the Tierra Bella. They say that there are some pretty stiff (18%) climbs out in the Henry Coe State Park area. Not terribly long, but still enough to give you a good work out. These guys aren't slackers- they are some of the best climbers in our group. I trust what they say is pretty darn accurate.

Just thought I'd warn you.

[melissam]

Melissm-

A couple of guys from our club went down to Morgan Hill and rode with some other folks on the newer version of the Tierra Bella. They say that there are some pretty stiff (18%) climbs out in the Henry Coe State Park area. Not terribly long, but still enough to give you a good work out. These guys aren't slackers- they are some of the best climbers in our group. I trust what they say is pretty darn accurate.

Just thought I'd warn you.

BG,

Thanks for the warning; as they say, forewarned is forearmed.

Gawd, 18% grades?! Enough to give me a good workout?! I'll say! Those are the kinds of grades that cause my heart rate to skyrocket and my stomach ... um ... to empty itself of its contents.

My-o-my-o-my-o-my-o-my, what have I gotten myself into?

Oh well, as MP says, it'll be fun. Uh huh.

-- Melissa

PS I do know that no one's holding a gun to my head and making me do this. I can either:
A. Bail on the ride entirely
B. Pick a shorter route
C. Walk up the 18% grades (the AIDS/Lifecycle folks call this "crosstraining")