We started a little late after some pleasant father's day distractions
(and crepes), so we drove to the Greenbriar (bottom of lefthand canyon).
It wasn't so amazing that I felt strong on the ride up, but Ken, who had
only had Saturday as a break from 350+ miles on Ride the Rockies, felt
strong as well. My first ride up, in April, was at a pace of about 45 minutes per
thousand vertical feet. Today, we road 2600 feet in just over an hour and a half.
The old pace would have consumed another 20 minutes: a good 20% improvement.
We made it up to 8100 feet on the way to Ward and turned around avoiding
a thunderstorm. We might have ridden further, but have gotten soaked,
and cold often enough. We've both been in the mountains enough around
storms and lightening that no one was going to get "manly" about having
turned around possibly prematurely. When we got closer to the Y, we
saw better weather and decided to do Jamestown. This evolved into
attempting Super Jamestown again. We made it. ....past Overland Dr. where
it starts going downhill again...but not to the dirt. The steepness of
Super Jamestown was quite rewarding, and the experience, especially the
strength and speed up to Ward made it conceivable that we will survive
the Triple Bypass.
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