Tahoe Ride

One last post to catch up on for the day...

Today was my long ride and since we're in Tahoe for a couple of days, I thought I'd ride around the lake. The catch is that the condo we're staying at is up Kingsbury grade, another 1500 feet up from the lake ~ about 7500 feet above sea level. I got a ride down the hill with my wife (she was doing her long run) and started my ride down there. It turns out America's Most Beautiful Bike Ride was also happening today - it's a ride around the lake and it's a huge Team In Training event, so once I caught up with people, I was passing tons of riders most of the way. Sort of annoying, but the upside was that there were people along the route cheering, too...

The ride around the lake has about 3500 feet of climbing I think and you're between 6000 and around 7000 feet above sea level for most of it. I did fairly well, though and got around the lake in well under 4 hours with an average of like 19.1 mph and about 190 watts. Then, I had to do the Kingbury grade climb back up to the condo. Another 1500 feet over about 4 miles. It brought my average down to 18 mph and pushed my average watts up to 197 for the whole ride. Not bad. 5000 feet of climbing at elevation over 75 miles and I still averaged 18 mph. My run afterwards was a little hard. It had another 500 feet of climbing over 3.9 miles. I was tired, but still knocked it out in just over 30 minutes - so still just a hair under 8 minute miles for this hard run after a fairly hard ride.

All in all, it was a good workout. And to top it off, we went to the beach with the fam afterwards and played in the sand with my kids, followed by a nice dinner out afterwards. What a great day!!