Long Hills

So todays ride was a 3hr “long hills” ride. I had a really cool ride planned. Up dyers pass, down to govenors, turn right and head to Gebbies, up Gebbies, Coopers along the summit. Then depending on time continue along the summit to evans.

But the weather forecast, included gusting southerlies and snow on the hills. I didn’t really want to be caught on the summit with strong winds or anywhere on the other side in a down poor. (yes I am a whimp when it comes to “what if” scenarios).

Sitting on the wind trainer for 2hrs doesn’t appeal either. I would rather face any sort of weather than that. So in the end, I decided it would be best to stay to this side of the hills, that way I could descend quickly if it turned really bad. As the only Long hill that truly exists on this side is Mt Pleasant, I decided to do 2 laps, climbing Mt Pleasant twice.

Lets just say when I got to the top of Mt Pleasant the first time, I thought “blah doing that again.” So decided to descend back the way I came instead and headed up Evans back up to Mt pleasant. Its been a while since I did Evans from Sumner. Its still a killer, but I can do it without going anerobic.

I thought this ride might be a little short of the 3hrs but turned out to be exactly 3hrs by the time I got home.

The weather wasn’t actually that bad, I would have survived on the original course. Oh well, its nice to know I can still do a alternative course when the weather is shite.

ps person in charge of weather, I didn’t see any sun while training this weekend. Please next weekend a little sun would be nice