Dear diary, Nathan kicked my arse from Guandu Bridge to all along Small Ping Ding Road-小坪頂路 above Danshui-淡水. He kicked my behind so hard, I’m still feeling sore after an overall 58 kilometers of riding with 800 meters of vertical climbing.
Even worse, he wore me out so hard that I had to stop twice when climbing a new route along Denglin Road-登林路 up from Wugu-五股.
My only salvation was that Quickly was open on Zhongzheng Road-中正路 in Linkou, route 106, where I could get a famous daily 20元 special drink. Today’s special was a delicious iced strawberry milkshake-like drink, but without the ice cream. It surprisingly, perfectly hit the least fatty spot in my belly.
Well, diary, despite all of the aches I’m feeling, I’m proud to have ridden 15 kilometers just to meet up with an expat friend for a hill ride and am looking forward to doing the ride again soon. Just not too soon.
Bike route Linkou > Danshui, return: Nathan 20090707
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Wow! 58km – Actually it looks like you did the ride I wanted to do today. I ended up rolling home with only 45km today. – Jealous!
I am not sure what my weekend looks like – but I will be on the bike most likely.
I knocked out another 33.9 km with a vertical climb of 530 m this evening with the Linkou Giant folks.
Bike route Linkou > Guanyinshan, 北53-1, 108 return: Giant group 20090707
Since I was sweeping this evening, I rode a slightly different route than the rest of the Giant gang to give Supergirl a break from having to climb a 3rd hill of 250 or 280 meters to get home. However, it seems that the normally gung ho, leave the girls in the dust guys sat up on Guanyinshan for an hour before calling us to ask where we are. Supergirl and I responded, at Starbucks in Linkou…
The manly men, let a girl beat them home.
By the way Supergirl, great riding up 北57 this evening, that’s a great, short and steep training climb. You killed over half of it before it got to be too much.
All said for today, 92.5 km and 1,330 meters climbing. Despite the
distance and climbing, I still feel pretty good. Especially after how
I felt in climbing up 北5? coming up Wugu home this afternoon. I was
tuckered out after that climb.