It's Spring, it's Spring! Another gorgeous day to get out and about. According to my training schedule, I was supposed to run 3 yesterday and 6 today but I ran 6 yesterday and rode my mountain bike 12 miles today. That's not very far for a bike ride but I got quite a workout. I think the overall climb is about 800 feet and my stats are: 12.02 miles in 1h 46 min an an average pace of 8:50/mile. I've been wanting to get back into riding and I think the best way to build my riding strength is to work on my strength which comes from riding uphill.
I call this ride the "Metallica's Gate" ride. One of the guys in the band Metallica, James Hetfield has a ton of property up here in Marin and part of that property comes right up to the edge of open space and I have heard that Hetfield didn't like having people be able to get onto his property so he was able to convince/pay off? the open space committee to put a gate across the fire-road that crosses his property. It's a bummer that there is a super ugly gate in the middle of super beautiful land. But, the gate is 6 miles from my front door and it's a good training ride. Especially at this time of the year when the hills are so vibrant and green. They will be brown soon enough but for now, thanks to all of the rain that we have recently had - the green is absolutely gorgeous. Photos from today.
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