Bill rode Tuesday from Port Angeles to Puget Sound. The photo here is the Hood Canal, taken while Kathy waited for the drawbridge to come back down. Bill's ride was 62 miles in length over four hours. Kathy thought that Monday's ride was more challenging in terrain, but Bill maintained that the long, straight hills were much more daunting. At one point, there was a long, steady uphill of two miles, gaining 600 feet, where he maintained a speed of seven miles an hour. Fortunately, he then had a wonderful downhill of speeds over 30 miles an hour.
We're figuring out how to use the Garmin Edge 205, a GPS device that doesn't talk to you to let you know what the next turn is but is a bicycle computer, displaying and capturing (for downloading to the laptop) certain statistics for the ride. The version we have doesn't record the cadence or the heart beat (amazing what those little suckers can do); it measures speed, distance, grade, elevation, etc. So far, you'd think that Bill was a professional rider at the top of his form with speeds up to 70 miles an hour, since the Garmin has been in the car! His old fashioned bike computer measures distance, speed, etc, and the interesting things done by the Garmin are measuring the grade and elevation and keeping the history of daily rides. When the download is complete, you can view a map with numbered routes, bodies of water, settlements, etc. We'll be able to store the whole trip, and Bill will be able to relive it at leisure on the martini deck in Rutland.
Today, we're headed up Hurricane Ridge, which has tremendous vistas of the Olympic Peninsula. It's a beautiful day here, with none of the overcast and drizzle that the Northwest is famous for.
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Oh, those long..straight climbs: such..a challenge; for body and mind.. Bill may not be a professional rider, but he is certainly..in top form..
Great photos!.. Best..and luck!
I saw an article in the Rutland Herald about your whole trip on June 29, 2007.
Good Luck!
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