One EBs ride, a good one.
Sunday, March 23, 2014
Saturday, March 22, 2014
Friday, February 28, 2014
One more Mt. Lemmon
Last day, last ride and climb to Summerhaven and Skivally, Mt. Lemmon. A nice more sunny day than Monday!
Summary of the past 6 days:
706km (440mi), 9800m (32'200ft) vertical, 26h40.
Summary of the past 6 days:
706km (440mi), 9800m (32'200ft) vertical, 26h40.
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Saguaro laps and Redigton exploration
Recovery ride. A nice day at Saguaro again and a little exploration of a dirt road climb.
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Wednesday, February 26, 2014
The long strait road towards Kitt Peak
A 51km ride on one long pretty much strait stretch of road towards Kitt Peak. The first 10 miles not not pleasing, but messy, bumpy and super rough, then gradually improving to a pretty decent surface.
After long 51km with head wind and on a slight incline we finally reached the base of Kitt Peak leaving this long mind boggling road.
A slightly rough and bumpy road leading the only way up (and down) to Kitt Peak where a set of nice observatories can be astonished.
Setting into climbing rhythm we all did our own job up. J. pretty strong ahead today, Py felt a little la-la... from that long haul getting there. After climbing along for a while all sudden some riders showing up from behind at quite some speed -- turned out later it was a Canadian development team. Py could not let them go right away but hooked up to the end of the train of some 8 riders or so -- bumping up his speed from some 14km/h to good 20km/h. Holy.... that get's it going but how long??? Starting to get hard after a couple of turns... and with HR ramping from steady 155bpm to over 177bpm for a while he had to let off and return to his own pace. But fun to try.
Turn by turn approaching the top eventually:
After long 51km with head wind and on a slight incline we finally reached the base of Kitt Peak leaving this long mind boggling road.
A slightly rough and bumpy road leading the only way up (and down) to Kitt Peak where a set of nice observatories can be astonished.
Setting into climbing rhythm we all did our own job up. J. pretty strong ahead today, Py felt a little la-la... from that long haul getting there. After climbing along for a while all sudden some riders showing up from behind at quite some speed -- turned out later it was a Canadian development team. Py could not let them go right away but hooked up to the end of the train of some 8 riders or so -- bumping up his speed from some 14km/h to good 20km/h. Holy.... that get's it going but how long??? Starting to get hard after a couple of turns... and with HR ramping from steady 155bpm to over 177bpm for a while he had to let off and return to his own pace. But fun to try.
Turn by turn approaching the top eventually:
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Easy, good day with two more riders and a former RAAM Nat 'Champ -- Gates Pass
Visiting the other side of Tucson making the way to and over Gates Pass and Tour de Cactus.
But first meeting J, K and later picking up one more amazing rider. Then making a long way around Tucson using a nice bike path for miles....
Before finally we approached Gates Pass, just a little climb over a smaller Mountain and descending into a nice valley and one more cacti paradise.
But first meeting J, K and later picking up one more amazing rider. Then making a long way around Tucson using a nice bike path for miles....
Before finally we approached Gates Pass, just a little climb over a smaller Mountain and descending into a nice valley and one more cacti paradise.
Monday, February 24, 2014
Mt. Lemmon -- the classic Tucson must see "road"
Simple day -- just ride up the 6% grade of 28miles to Summerhaven, Ski Valley and to the very top and end of the out and back road. We actually did this twice Monday and to finish up the trip once more Friday.
The Mt. Lemmon range just following the foothills area.
The Mt. Lemmon range just following the foothills area.
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