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They’re finally working on Downtown West Old LaHonda?

Tues/Thurs 7:45am ride

Tuesday’s ride? Kevin (pilot) showed up, had some fun up the hill, varying the pace a bit, only to blow up before the top. Still ended up just under 30 minutes, so, not so awfully bad. And nice clear day too!

Unlike Thursday morning, waking up to really icky skies, too-warm temps, and just not really feeling it. Karen met up with me and we rode through the park, with me wondering if we were running ahead or behind JeffZ, who’s making a habit of joining up with us on the way up Kings. I was thinking he’d probably already passed by, and I was right; we didn’t see him until arriving at the top. But we did see work near the “Downtown Improvement Project” building on West Old LaHonda. Oh, and no insect stings this week either!

No rattlesnakes! Or bee or yellow jacket stings.

Ride reports (not Tu/Th)

Kevin heading up Tunitas on his e-bike which did give him a workout!
It’s funny; you’d think Kevin riding his e-bike would make for an easy ride for him, but that’s actually not the case; he’s been off his regular bike for a couple of months due to his knee issue, and that’s taken away a lot of his steam. Sure, he could put it in “Turbo” mode and leave me in the dust, but that might not give enough battery life for the whole ride.

And what was the ride? Nothing too challenging; just up Old LaHonda, down the other side to the coast, and back via Tunitas. Curiously it was hottest as we were just 4 or 5 miles from the coast, where it hit 91. It never got terribly cool though; 84 at the coast, and I saw 77 for a bit on Tunitas. Air quality not too bad.

It’s interesting, when climbing and passing others, when one of you is on an e-bike. For some reason I think it a good idea that I lead at that point. Not quite sure why, maybe just want to make sure they don’t think we’re both on e-bikes.

I noticed Kevin got a ton of Strava accomplishments, including some “overall” placings, while I got just one. So it turns out that you have an entirely different set of “accomplishments” for e-bikes vs regular (which makes sense) but for the most part, the fastest times remain in the domain of regular bikes. I was somewhat surprised by this, thinking that there might be some aggressive e-bike riders wanting to “own” KOMs, but it appears that’s not really the case. Interesting.