Monday, May 18, 2009

05/18 Roll on Columbia: Hidden Hills to Omak

My watch says it's Monday, a new week. You lose track of these things on the road; Wednesday is no different than Saturday. Last week was a good one, training wise. Although I only rode 6 days I got in 442 miles or a daily average of 74 miles and 3453 feet of climbing. For the cross country trip, we'll average 80 miles and 2384 feet of climbing.


Today was an easy day with choices of 38 or 50 miles. Well, Jan and I got lost so we got in 56. And it was mostly downhill. We first got payback for yesterday's 6.7 mile climb to Hidden Hills. Today we went down that hill; I hit 35 mph. And later in the day we got to go down a couple of big hills that we'd climbed a couple of days ago. We'd better enjoy today's ride; tomorrow is a different story - a 17 mile climb gaining almost 3,000 feet.

Photo on the right is of Winter Canola plants, source of canola oil.

1 comment:

chuckc said...

John,

This is a test. I'm posting a comment.