Saturday and Sunday Riding

On Saturday, it was really cloudy all day, so I didn't get out to 3:30 or so. After riding around for a little over an hour I rode up Tantalus pretty hard. Did a disappointing 24:40, exactly the same time as last week...and I felt pretty strong too. I was looking for a 24:20ish or so...

Today, it started as a cloudy day, but by 2pm, it was beautiful so I decided to do an easy recover ride, and things didn't go as planned.


After cruising around for about an hour I felt halfway decent so I decided to climb Tantalus really easily, at about 200 - 230 watts, just cruising. Got to the top, and decided to go down on the UH side, "thinking" I would just squeeze through the area that their repairing. Fat chance, when I got just past the UH lookout, this is what I found -



P@ck! No...double P@ck...No ways around (they extending a plywood barrier about 20 feet down the embankment to prevent this), above or under...I was screwed...having only a 1/4 bottle of water remaining, and with my legs all packed up from yesterday, I had to slog back to the top of Tantalus...what a way to do a recovery ride...almost bonked too...