Tour de Blast – Unfinished business
June 19, 2007
My next event is on Saturday. I am riding the tour de blast. It will be an 82 mile ride (that’s 135k for you metric fans out there); and it will have over 6,000 feet of elevation gain.
The ride is at Mt. St. Helen’s. Here is what their website says about the profile:
Elevation gain/difficulty
The elevation gain from the start line at Toutle to Elk Rock (27 miles into the ride, elevation 3,800 feet) is approximately 3,300 feet. From there, the highway descends 1,270 feet over five miles to Coldwater Lake(elevation 2,530 feet). Then riders will begin a nine-mile climb of 1,670 feet to the Johnston Ridge viewpoint and turnaround. A rider going all the way to Johnston Ridge and back to Toutle will climb a total of 6,240 vertical feet over 82 miles (135K) including the climb back up the eastern side of Elk Rock.
This is a ride I have done once before, in 2003. I was riding with Mark and Mitch. The weekend before had been in the mid 80’s. The forecast said that the day of the ride would be in the high 60’s to the mid 70’s. All of us wore fingerless gloves, cycling shorts and jerseys, and light rain jackets. Bad idea!!!
Entry Filed under: 2007 Resolutions, Goals, cycling, fitness, fitness over forty, male over forty, over forty. .
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