One week to go until the ‘big ride’, the Long Beach Tour de Cure to benefit the American Diabetes Association. For more information about my participation please visit: http://main.diabetes.org/goto/lousyracuse
It felt strange to be getting ready for a ride on Saturday alone, my wife Jen has been riding on Saturdays with me but isn’t riding in this event. She is still fairly new to cycling but catching on fast. Next year we’ll find an event to ride together.
Instead of the usual Saturday right down to Seal Beach and beyond, two others riders from my Saturday ride and I went on a training ride on Saturday, starting in Torrance and winding through the streets of Palos Verdes. Or should say ‘hills’ of Palos Verdes! Our Saturday ride is mostly flat with a couple of inclines on the way to Warner/PCH, but this was different. This ride is a monthly training ride on the streets where will be riding in the Tour. VERY scenic, overlooking the ocean and passing by multi-million dollar houses. Jackie and Hiro took off first on the longest ride, while I went out with the second group. Although a bit more challenging our group did just over 22 miles. It is always hard to judge how far to go out because when you get to the turn-around point you still have to get back, in retrospect I should have voted to go on a bit further but I took the side of caution as this was new terrain for me.
I didn’t realize that most of the way back was downhill. I’m hoping that is the direction we go on Sunday, after climbing the bridges to get there the streets of Palos Verdes will be a bit tougher than they were on Saturday. No matter, I plan to conquer them in either direction. :)
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