This past weekend my wife and I did the half metric century ride put on by Cycling Concepts in Rocky Hill. Including the one wrong turn we made, which added about 2 miles, we did about 40 miles of riding with 2700 feet of elevation change. It was by far the hardest ride I have done to date.
There were so many hills. I’m proud to say that I climbed them all. No walking for me. There was one hill that seemed nearly vertical. I’m sure that looking back on it it was probably not as big as I remember, but I very nearly didn’t make it up. It was so steep that I couldn’t get comfortable standing, so I just started swerving left and right and with about 10 feet to go and finally made it up.
It was a lot of fun to ride with my wife, who did really well herself btw, but it was a really tough go.
Having said that, I really really like my bike. It just feel great on it. I’m planning another couple long rides before the year is over, but none will be that tough.