Mike's Bike Blog

On Monday (07/06/2009) we drove the 65 miles from my brother's house up to my parent's place in Sequim, WA. For Monday's ride I didn't venture out too far. I mainly used the hill outside of my parent's retirement community to do 9 intervals of 3 minutes up with 2 minute recoveries between each. I only had my Doug's mountain bike so I had to do the intervals by feel. I think I was able to hit my power levels, I know on the last few it was slipping as I was having trouble getting back to the same end spot on the hill that I was reaching in the earlier sets. I did have several spectators looking on in the form of deer. There were 6 or 7 deer in a few of the yards the lined the hill. After the intervals I rode up to Happy Valley Road over to River Road (runs along the Dungeness River) and down River road to almost Highway 101 and turned around.

What's really surprising was the amount of climbing on this ride. The intervals added up along with the hill on Happy Valley on the return, 4343 feet of climbing!

Stats:
Duration:      1:18:30 (1:20:26)
Distance:      16.03 mi
Elevation Gain:        4343 ft
Elevation Loss:       4294 ft