Dion’s Exercise and …

Here’s the route

Got away nice and early after walking across the wet paddock and up the dirt road, I wacked my shoes on and headed down the road. After a tiny climb there was a short descent where I nearly collected a large male deer with a fair size set of antlers, not quite sure who got the bigger fright !

Then it was a gentle climb up to the entrance gate of the ski area, about 15km to the summit from there and someone had put up some nice altitude and distance to go signs, though they seemed to get further out compared to my HR altitude as I got near the top. Passed 3 people already heading down and had about 5 cars go past other wise it was very quiet. The sun was coming up and it was nice and cool in the shade but a bit warm in the sunny bits, luckily there wasn’t too many of those. The HR temp was sitting around 20 C so it was really nice temp. The climb is fairly steady most of the way up, with only a few short steep pinches out of a couple of the corners. At least, until the last 1 km or so, then it really pitches up and I nearly had to do a bit of tacking but I dug deep and dragged myself up to the top.

After a short stop to fill up my water and have a wee break, I figured I’d better head up the last bit of the road through the ski village to the end of the paved surface. That was about another 1 km, again pretty steep, but I’d had a rest so no complaining ! The paving ended under one of the ski lifts so I snapped a few photos, reset the Hr and SportsTracker and headed down …

Need to upload my HR data but here’s the stats from the SportsTracker, the entry is here.

Workout:

• Type: Cycle
• Date: 12/31/2007
• Time: 05:52:00
• Total Time: 1:40:40.00
• Distance: 21 km
• Average Speed: 12.52 kmph
• Max Speed: 49.7 kmph
• Ascent: 1,070 m
• Descent: 20 m