June 24-26 rides

[Biciclista]

Mazama Mama finally DOES Mazama

This is the 4th year I have been part of this annual ride we do over two mountain passes in our lovely state of washington.
The last two years, I've actually more or less run the ride with my DH's help. But this year I rode it.
We started Saturday morning, it was cold and wet, it had been raining, I slept poorly, all of the kinds of things that make you want to stay in bed.
We were on the tandem. Dh started to have issues, very much unlike him, he is almost always a hot dog, full of energy and bravado. This was not an easy ride, from right above sea level to about 5000 feet, and then dropping down into the Methow Valley a little above 2000 feet. We stay at the Mazama country inn over night, then we get up and ride back.
So we cut out 1/2 the climbing on Saturday (to "save" me for Sunday)
Sunday morning we got up and DH was feeling better, so we climbed right up that mountain. It t ook almost 3 1/2 hours to get to the top


The downhills were really scary to me, we topped out at about 45 mph. The tandem goes VERY fast downhill; in places I would go 25-30mph on my single bike, we were hovering right around 40mph

[radacrider]

Mazama Mama finally DOES Mazama

Looks like a wonderful 2nd day, nothing better than blue, sunny skies on ride to up the spirits.

I rode out to our 2nd Sunday Parkways in North Portland (18 miles roundtrip). The route itself was nice, first time doing the North Portland one, which was about 8 miles this year. Lot's of people! Fun day.

[Catrin]

Looks like a beautiful weekend and glad you had such a great time! 45 mph would be scary awesome!

I wound up with a 23 mile ride Saturday, and a 20 mile ride Sunday. The rides were perhaps not as long as I would have liked, Saturday I just had a narrow window in which to ride and Sunday my old over-use injury started twinging so I cut it short, and Friday I got 13 miles in for a total of 56 miles in three days.

[maggie's sister]

I rode Friday (16 miles), Saturday (42 miles) and Sunday (14 miles). Good rides, even Saturday when I got dropped by the boys. Seems silly to complain about averaging 16 mph in the western PA hills on cool Saturday morning.

[luv2climb]

I rode three new hills in the Auburn area: Newcastle Road, Hayes Drive (14% grade), and Crater Hill Road, as well as ones I've ridden once before: Chili Hill Road, Bald Hill Road, and Baxter Grade. Also ran into a member of another bike forum, so in this ride video you get to see me ride with him for about 1/2 mile before I get dropped.

Garmin Connect data: http://connect.garmin.com/activity/95103145

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yzJFA6wsEg

Hayes Drive 14% grade:


Hayes Drive 14% grade by kittyz202, on Flickr

fi'zi:k logo spraypainted on the steep (and painful!) Chili Hill Road climb:


fi'zi:k logo on Chili Hill Road climb by kittyz202, on Flickr

Bottom of Rattlesnake Road climb (disappointingly easy climb, btw) at the north fork of the American River and Folsom Lake:



Crater Hill Road and Wise Road:



What I hope to become once all the excess weight's gone :

[Biciclista]

disappointingly easy climb??? lol. Nice pictures.

[luv2climb]

disappointingly easy climb??? lol. Nice pictures.

Thanks! I'm always looking for hard climbs, and for some reason I thought Rattlesnake Road was supposed to be one of the hard ones. Maybe I confused it with Rattlesnake Bar Road, which was a sufferfest when I climbed it last October.

Have you been up Shirland Tract?

Veronica

Yup. I climbed it for the first time on Memorial Day. Here's a ride report with pictures and video that I posted on BikeForums: http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...o-Max-20-grade

[Veronica]

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Bottom of Rattlesnake Road climb (disappointingly easy climb, btw) at the north fork of the American River and Folsom Lake:
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Have you been up Shirland Tract?

Veronica