Due to poor weather in the last few weeks. We only managed to get in two "official" hill climb training rides in, though we did ride up Aggie a couple of unofficial days too. We started with a bitterly cold ride on March 28. It was my self and long time shop friend/customer Brian Wade. We accomplished two repeats that night and got tossed about by the wind a little. Good training! Then the next week it rained and or snowed, then it snowed again followed by more rain. April showers bring May flowers, or so we always try to convince ourselves...
We did get in our final ride last Monday, April 18 and it was bliss! After a nice warm up on Scituate rd, then directly to the base, up the solo rider (Steve) went, climbing again for a total of five! It was a rather gray night, but with the trees still lacking leaves, the sky turned blue with the contrast off the Ocean and I admired the usually great views of York Harbor, Nubble Light an all the coastline way up to Kennebunk. There was one other rider there who parked at the base and did his own program, not sure how many climbs he did, but he was still cruising up on my last descent. It felt great to get in a ride and I fell into a nice rhythm on every ascent.
If we get enough folks interested in another Hill Climb Series we may start one up again for the month of June, but it would probably be on a different night. Let us know if you would participate.
I would encourage anyone who is aspiring to ride a White Mountain Century, The Six Gaps in Vermont or getting ready for Mount Washington, to use Aggie in their training programs. One can nearly gain as much elevation with repeats on this hill as you can gain in the higher country and it averages a 13% grade!
Here is a map link from our final ride. We ended up with 2475 feet climbed in 21 miles.
Join us for our regularly occurring Monday night rides at 5:30 from the shop. We will push the start time to 6 PM on Monday May 2.
Have a good ride!
Steve
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