Moving Time 6:24:30
Elevation 6,158ft
Avg Speed 11.6mi/h
Max Speed 30.6mi/h
Quite an amazing ride led by Mary Vencill with co-leaders Greg Nichols, Don Brown, Dawn Tso, Suse Whitehead, Arjan Bok and Kathy O'Brien AND M doing SAG and rest stops.
Because of AIDS/LifeCycle I have now visited Mt. Diablo twice, but today was the first time to the top of Mt. Diablo and cycling up the last 200 feet literally kicks butt. I don't think I could feel my derrière the last 30 feet of climbing, but nothing was going to stop me from cycling to the top. WHEW! Cycling down the mountain was not fun for me. I'm afraid of heights and one could go very fast down Mt. Diablo, but as you can see from the stats above, I maxed at 30.6 mi/h. It was cold and I was braking as much as I could to stop from going any faster and off the cliff. Had that happened, I wouldn't have been able to do the June 1 to 7 ride.
All-in-all a fabulous ride even though the climb was challenging. I was ready to end the ride by our 4th rest stop, which was our lunch stop. We cycled on ...
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