Mount Hamilton Ride Report

[Veronica]

Yesterday we rode up Hamilton from Livermore. This is a 95 mile ride with just under 7800 feet of climb.



It was sunny, but cold and very windy when we began - so cold in fact that my knees started aching almost immediately. Thom is riding ahead of me and he slows down when he realizes that I'm no longer with him. I finally catch up and tell him about my knees and that I've decided to give it an hour. If they still ache in an hour, we're turning around. Twenty minutes into the ride, I'm wondering if we should just call it quits now - my knees hurt so much. We finally turn out of the wind and pull over at the wide spot in the road, which will be a rest stop for DMD at mile 91. I take 3 Advil and hope that now that we're out of the wind and beginning the hard climbing I will warm up and all will be right with the world.

To be continued.