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Head wind go away.

Posted on 06. Aug, 2009 by Derrick.

I called Hyon on Saturday and the conversation went kinda like this “Lets go ride tomorrow” Hyon responded with “O.K. what did you have in mind?” I couldn’t think of anything good so I said “I don’t care, lets do something that is going to make me work, and regret that I went on a ride”  without pause he answered with “Lets ride from Idaho Springs to the top of Loveland pass”. I hung up quickly after saying yes for fear I would chicken out. Summer started giggling and said to me “well, you did ask him to go on a ride that you will regret”

60 Miles, 4300 feet in elevation, and a boatload of pain.

When we got up to Idaho springs, it was a beautiful day. Not a cloud in the sky. However, after about the first 5 miles we realized that the 15-25 mile an hour headwind wasn’t going anywhere any time soon. Having a 30 mile assent without a head wind is difficult in its own. Adding in a head wind was just plain mean.

As you can see with the Stars and Stripes standing at attention, we had some serious windage.

Even the Georgetown lake had white caps

So after 6 hours of riding I decided that I was going to lay down at the bottom of loveland pass for a couple of minutes before we made our descent. I knew that we had another hour to two hours on our bikes, and at this point everything hurt.

Then we started downhill….. Whoooooooosh. Our average speed according to my GPS was 32mph with a top speed of 48mph. What made it fun was all the sunday trafic that we happened to be blasting past.

If you had asked me if I was having a good time at the top, I would have socked you in the nose. The speed of the descent and able to enjoy the scenery made it all worth it.

2 lara bars, 2 clif bars, 1 Gatorade, 2 liters of water, and 7 hours of riding later. We were finaly back at the car. EVERYTHING hurt. I have no idea how those professional cyclist do this every single day.

On the way home Hyon candidly said to me “We should do this once a month” I’m not sure if I’m ready for that but, hell, I’m not going to say No!

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