Alc 2009

[Trek420]

I am really in awe of anybody riding over 500 miles!

Clock

Clockwork, yes it's quite the ride. The thing about ALC (or any multi day tour) is not so much the distance and climbing although there is that but what I call the back to back to backness.

Do a century, sleep in a tent, get up and do another, try to find the porta potty in the night, do another, pitch a tent and take it down, do another ...

We have us some hills here and the climbing is significant. I don't know for sure but have heard figures of about 27-28,000 feet of climbing. And since they'll start and end at sea level there's equal amount of descending

Yet as California rides go it's not the hardest. There are doubles that V and others here do that have almost as much climbing in one day. don't even think about the Death Ride

But on most doubles or rides like T.D. R. one can take a rest day the next day This one you can't and that makes it tough but also rewarding