After a week or so of rides that had to be cut short due to ice on the road (including one particularly hairy descent from Kumogahata last Sunday), we seem to be enjoying a brief period of warm weather (double figures!) which means an excuse to get back into the hills rather than sticking to flat routes...
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| Cycling in early morning snow on Tuesday morning! |
This weekend's group ride took us up Hieizan - a Category 2 climb with an average 5.1% grade over about 7 km for a total of about 350 m elevation gain - then back to Kyoto via Otsu and Yamashina (and two more Cat 4 climbs, naturally). Cracking ride and it was so warm I didn't even need leg warmers (did go with good ol' embrocation, though)!
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| Quick shot next to a bizarrely made-up tanuki statue in Otsu, after the descent from Hieizan |
Of note was that this was my first time on a geared bike since, well, I don't know. But I've been riding solely fixed for a year now. Climbing on fixed has given me wicked sprinting power but apparently absolutely awful endurance on longer climbs. I was truly dying halfway up this Cat 2. Definitely something to work on...
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