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As for cycling, Ofer and Stijn are inseparable, when you see one of them on a bike, the other is not far. Well, apparently they believe that Christophe and I do the same, always going on the same rides. So when Stijn planned a ride to Mt Baldy for today, he didn't tell me... during the week I receive an email "meeting at 7h30 on sunday... ride to Baldy...". I didn't know they had signed me up for a ride, but it sounded good, so of course I was up for it ! Today's crew: Brett, Christophe, Ofer, Stijn and I.
The ride included urban riding until Glendora mountain road which we climbed, then Glendora ridge road to Baldy village, and we went up to the ski lifts. Going up from Baldy village to the ski lifts is a very difficult climb, 2500ft in 4 miles. Specially when you are already tired from the previous mountains ! Since Glendora mountain road was closed to the traffic, and there was virtually no cars on Mt Baldy road, we didn't have to worry about cars on this part of the ride. Well, my biggest worry at that time was all those mountains. I was quite tired and very slow all day, each climb was feeling hard. We finally completed the 93 miles ride in little more than 10 hours, and my altimeter registered 10,400ft of elevation gain. This doesn't sound like so much gain, but riding in the cities was all flat, so all this climbing was over approximately 65 miles.
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