After reaching Canada road, which is closed off to traffic to give cyclists free access on Sundays, the route heads south until Woodside road. Heading West on Woodside you can opt to tackle Kings Mountain or head straight up La Honda road. I decided to leave Kings for another day and worked my way up La Honda. The view is hidden by trees so there is nothing for it but to put your head down and grind it out for 5 or 6 kilometeres until you reach the junction to Skyline Boulevard where there is a trading station that makes a convenient resting point.
After refilling the water bottle and chatting to a group of riders it was back to climbing again up Skyline. A few more hundred metres of ascending and then then long run down to route 92. The wind was blowing a bit up there which made ascending tricky and the road surface was horrendous. It is not a route that I would choose again.
At the bottom of 92 I turned left and over Bunker a hill for a pleasant descent down Polhemus and Crystal Springs road and home.
After five straight days in the saddle my legs were feeling the strain but it has been an excellent start to training in the New Year and I hope to build on that back in England.
The stats:
- 75.9 km
DISTANCE
- 1,214 m
ELEVATION (?)
- 03:31:37
MOVING TIME
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