Nine hours and thirty-four minutes
I wanted to go out for a little ride today, and asked on a local bikey mailing list if anyone wanted to go along. A couple of the fast boys were interested, so the ride was somewhat more energetic than my usual pace. By a hour and a half.
The gory details are:
- 201.6 km
- ~1200 meters elevation gain (and a similar loss, given that it starts and ends at the same place.)
- 9h34 brevet time
- 8h17 moving time
- 15.1mph average speed (the lowest the average speed got was 14.9mph at the summit of Ridge Road between Lower Highland and Upper Highland roads, and the highest (after a reasonable distance) was 15.9mph at the Helvetia Road bridge over highway 26.)
- 42.9mph top speed (dropping down the steeeep ramp on Casto Road about 3 miles west of Canby; this speed was almost matched dropping down Amiseigger Road and Thompson Road) thanks to just not bothering to touch the brakes but just letting gravity have its rough way with me.
I’m going to make Newberg into an open control, I think. Gaston is nice, but we ended up stopping at Chapters (hot chocolate – YUM!) anyway, and it would be a shame to have that receipt go to waste. And I didn’t remember that I wanted to bring some zip ties for the info control at Ridge Road and Upper Highland Road.
And, alas, I was too busy going like the dickens to stop and take pictures, except when we were coming down the last leg to Milwaukie Ave and saw a Yellow Menace locomotive painted in some commemorative paint scheme (Olympic torch 2001?) And by then the Pentax had disassembled itself on a bump, so I had to reinstall the batteries and reset the battery, thus costing me One! Valuable! Minute! Of! Brevet! Time!
I’ve put the pictures on flickr, all tidily dropped into a photoset for your viewing convenience.