Trees can't stop the bike

Today is Thursday, which means that my friend Woody and I went on a road ride in the morning before our 2:30 classes. It's great to have a school-day morning to get out, ride hard, and come back feeling accomplished even before heading to class. We just decided to do a faster ride today with just a little climbing. We climbed up Roberts Rd off of P. Hill, and went down the backside down into Santa Rosa.

On the start of the climb up Roberts, there was a wall of tree covering the road. It was maybe 20 feet high, but it seemed like more, and it was quite a sight to see the road disappearing into it. We had to hop a fence to go around, and all of the cars had to turn around, which was probably a real pain, as they had a long ways to go around. We took a few pictures with Woody's camera and I will hopefully post them when I get them. Next time, I want to climb up Sonoma Mt. Rd. as well.

We headed over to Annadel State Park and rode to the end of Channel drive. The weather was beautiful and it felt great to soak in the sun and just cruise up the road at that point. We had talked about taking the Joe Radota Trail over to Sebastopol and riding around the hills, but we decided that our legs just weren't going to carry us up those hills and headed over to P. Hill Rd. Woody and I both wanted to book it back and we were pushing hard on P. Hill. At one point, we were consistently at around 27 mph on the flats. I'm not sure if we had a tail wind, but it felt awesome to fly like that.

After my class, I went out on a fixed ride with some guys from the school and around town. It was a pretty short ride, but still fun. We did a short climb up Cypress off of W. Sierra in Cotati and spun down Poplar. From there, we had a nice pace line going down Old Redwood and came back up on P. Hill Rd. I always forget how much I like little loops like that. I hope to ride with the single-speed crowd again soon.

Starting this Blog

I'm starting this blog to keep up with my hobbies surrounding bicycling and to motivate myself to ride more and try new things. I'll post on bicycle-related news and info, keep ride reports, and just have a good time with this blog thing.