An epicly proportioned bike race.
Summary: A rural bike race set in east Oregon, a few hundred miles east of Portland. Lots of miles on gravel roads riding with my team in the Dalles (east of mount hood), lots of climbing and beautiful views of mountains , fields , sunsets and rurality
Team Beer (6 blokes and 2 girls) set off Friday night, the race starts early early Saturday. We jumped in a hotel room just outside the Dalles of which all 8 of us crammed in. Matt Case, who we suspect is illiterate showed us that he could read, we think he was just pretending, what a divvy. the girls Sharon and Taylor took the bed the boys got the floor. Needless to say the room smelt pretty bad the next morning.
Here are some of my fav photos that I took. But there is a whole album of crackers if you click the link.
Matt Case pretends he knows how to read the night before.
Off to the race dang early
All the loosers at the start. 7am bright and early.
Taylor hammers it up the hill.
Tons of this awaits us.
Great view of Columbia river and the Dalles from the top of a climb.
Rustic Countryside shit
Many a hill to come:
A few ruins and countryside shit.
A few odd buildings out in the middle of now where!
Mountains and Mountains in the distance
Still tons of gravel:
Just letting people know:
A few shop stops when available, load up on snacks n water.
Clearly stated, this was most of the ride
Awesome:
The road climbing begins:
On top of the world:
More Pretty:
Rural buildings:
The sun gets lower:
Time to kick out the last 30miles and hope we don't get caught in the dark.
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| From Oregon Stampede 2010 |
After this, it was too dark to take photos:
We managed to get back to the car just after dark, thats a long day on a bike. The last 5 miles were pretty sketchy, very tired and no lights! Great team time, one of the best rides I have done in my life!
Here are some stats.
127 miles
9521 ft of climbing (905 meters of uphill)
13 hours, 5 minutes out on the course
34 mph on the final gravel descent by Clint and I in the pitch dark with no
lights
70+ miles of gravel.
Great team experience.
Here's the route
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/48703683
Cheers!
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