• Distance 27.09 miles
  • Time 01:58:57
  • Max Speed 47.00 mph
  • Average Speed 13.66 mph
  • Elevation 2933.00 feet
  • Average Pace 4:23 min/mile

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Cycling

August 12, 2007

Posted at 08:38 PM
  • Distance 13.22 miles
  • Time 01:30:32
  • Max Speed 30.70 mph
  • Average Speed 8.76 mph
  • Elevation 539.00 feet
  • Average Pace 6:50 min/mile

Did the portland bridge pedal with my son. He had fun, but of the six bridges we were supposed to ride across, we had to walk because once again they can't figure out how to run these things so there isn't a huge cluster-f at some point. They had the 10-bridge and 6-bridge riders merging together on one bridge, and then at the ross island bridge there were literally thousands standing and moving one step at a time for nearly an hour in our case, and we were near the front of the retardation. After that mess I pretty much put it in high gear and told the son "we'll stop and look at all this other crap next time." He had fun, and I took him to mcdonalds after, which is apparently the all american place to take your kid after doing something with them.

Did I mention how terrible at riding most of the people who do this ride are? I don't know how many accidents I had to avoid... Because I had my son I was riding a little slower than I would normally, which was probably a good thing. However, the two of us blew by nearly everyone going uphill which made me feel good as I have been a lazy sack of poo lately. The kid had fun and wants to do it again next year. And monster cookie...

Time to go play a round of 18 on the Wii :)

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firepile's avatar
firepile star says,

You could've come to visit us, slacker. The Ross Island Bridge eventually takes you to our house! (Eventually..)

Glad you had a good ride - I heard lots of good things about this ride beforehand but nothing afterwards. Everyone must be too embarassed by the clusterfudge!

Tmundal's avatar
Tmundal star says,

I don't know where you live. And yeah...it was a cluster. It was like everyone that does stp, trying to cross the ross island bridge at once. lol Note the 9 mph average. Its not because we were taking in the sights. I spent most the riding parts pushing as hard as I could. Then I would let off, and the boy would be pedaling just as fast. t'was awesome. He doesn't take epo, he just thinks "the sooner we get done, the sooner I get to play pokemon on the nintendo DS" and BOOM! We're like a freight train.

firepile's avatar
firepile star says,

Smart kid!!

We live right off 26 now. Our house rocks! And we're like 20 blocks from Burgerville.

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