The first eight miles were nice and easy, just a nice warm up to get the legs loose and ready for the day ahead. Then we turned right and up the hill we went, some 4,200+ feet worth of climbing over 19 miles, over 2000+ feet was up the last seven miles. I will post the route when I get back to LA and download the information. It took 2 hrs 35 minutes to get up to the top and then only 1 hr 30 minutes to get back down. The down was great; it just hurt the hands to continually pull on the brakes. After a while, I was hoping for some hill or flat to just not have to pull on the brakes! Check out this website to see the top of Mt. Hamilton, http://mthamilton.ucolick.org/. It has a cam and you can see the road we came up and the other hills we came over to get there. As JD has described, there are two "prehills" before the last climb. The first is okay just long. The second is steeper but not as long. The last one is the seven miles to the top. It took an hour to get up this hill. It was a good ride and what I needed to get ready for the STP. JD did me right. It was a good ride. It was good to be riding with him again. I am sure we will have many more opportunities to do it again.
Something I failed to mention was this last week, during my rides, Christine got out with me for an hour. I was so happy to have her riding with me. It was for a little over an hour but it is a start. I hope to continue to coax her to get on the bike. She has been at spin class now a couple of time. Who knows, she might be the next Jedi on the bike!!
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