As you can see from the elevation chart above, it's a pretty consistent climb along the 8 mile route. We made pretty good time riding up the mountain - about 43 minutes from the parking lot at the entrance to the tv towers at the summit. I didn't take my allergy meds last night - and haven't done a mountain ride since last summer - so I was huffing and puffing up to the top. We all made it, though!
We all took photos at the tv towers just in case you don't believe that we made it!
We took a little break at the top and Scotty had a wee wardrobe malfunction... SILLY ROOKIE and his busted zipper.
The ride back down was GLORIOUS, as per usual. The views of the city and valley on the way down just can't be beat. We had a pretty good pace coming back down because there wasn't a lot of auto traffic. I looked down and clocked myself going 36 mph on the final stretch. It felt great. Tyler reminded us that we need to get another South Mountain summit ride in before AIDS/LifeCycle in June. As much as I hate to say it, I know he's right. It'd be a good idea for me to get in two more of those before the ride. I can fly along the flat and rolling routes, but need to work on my climbing in a bad way if I'm going to conquer Quadbuster and the Evil Twins the same way I did last year!
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