Prepped for a busy couple of weeks in July. Starting out with joining a team to run a few 8 mile legs of a RAGNAR up in Bellingham, then down to Seattle for a solo bike trip out to Bainbridge Island (itinerary below) and finally the RAMROD.
Friday 7/22
3:00pm – ride to Mill Creek
Saturday 7/23
6:00am – Mill Creek to the ferry station in Seattle
11:25am – take ferry to Bainbridge Island
12:00pm – check out the bike shop/museum and probably grab a bite
1:00pm – ride a section of the Chilly Hilly route up to Eleven Winery
??:??pm – easy 4 mile cruise to the hotel
Sunday 7/24
7:00am – another section of the Chilly Hilly route towards the ferry station
8:30am – breakfast at Blackbird Bakery
9:45am – ferry back to Seattle
10:15am – Seattle to Element Cycles in Redmond
12:00pm – RAMROD packet pickup & BBQ
1:30pm – back to Carnation
And like that, it’s all over. A lot of solo time on the bike; burning through miles, thinking about life and thinking about nothing. Drinking wine by myself in a hotel room while my bibs dry in the bathroom shower. Being honked at. Getting waves. Sweating the days and crashing hard at night.
The front-end of this trip was a RAGNAR run north of Seattle where I did 28 miles within a 24 hour span. The backend was the RAMROD where the ride was something like 150 miles with 11,000 ft of elevation.
I’m cooked.
