Monday Ride! May Climbing Challenge

Monday Ride is the first official ride of the May climbing challenge. I say first official ride because I did a ride on May Day but neglected to hit the record button on the Strava app. I'm done crying about my mistake. Snooze you lose.

Let's have a look at Monday Ride.  The weather was warm but was threatening to rain, fortunately;  I only felt a few sprinkles and the roads remained dry. I was comfortable on the bike and I had great legs. One of those rides were you know why you love to pedal bicycles.

The route is one I do often during the season. Basically I go into Langley via Bayview Road. Come out of Langley on the Langley Rd and cross the highway at Ken's Corner and then home on Cultus Bay Road. Because I was feeling so good and I'm doing the climbing challenge I added The Heggenes Loop.

Here are the climb along this route.

1. Sills Road. This hill would just about kill me when I started riding again. Now I just put in a decent effort and get up it.




2. Brook's Hill is a decent climb and I do well climbing most of the time. It also sets you up on the top of the descend into Langley.




3. Lang Road Hill. This hill climb is one I like to put in a good effort. Sometime I start out a little too hard and then suffer at the top. The other annoyance on this hill is the traffic coming out of Langley. It can be quite heavy certain times of the day.



4. Heggenes Hill is on my favorite hill climb list. The lower part of the hill reminds me of Switzerland. The meadow with the barn and horses and the way the hill is cut. Beautiful. 



5. Last but not lease Scatchet Head Road. This hill is not one of my favorites. It's necessary climb to get home. 




I ended up with 1657 feet of climbing on this route. I've convert the Stava goal of 7500 meters to feet 12606.3. So I only have 10949 feet to go.

Keep on climbing!