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Originally Posted by look 171
The Levi Ride in Santa Roas. First time I done it, It kicked my teeth in. I normally don't do these fun rides but these guys sucked me into it. Now we do it yearly. I honestly don't know how many feet of climbing but I sure felt it? I think it was something like 9000' combined for the long rides. I did lots of hill work for the next few. Still, like LeMond said, " The stronger you are, the faster you go and it hurts just as much". I think that maybe my most elevation hill climb.
Locally, I use to do Mt Baldy and that's 5-6000' straight up.
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Did I tell you guy, I HATE hills.
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Ah, the Gran Fondo. That's a long tough one on some crappy roads too. I'm done with those century rides, too much for an old man. Levi is best friends with a "kid" I get to ride with on occasion Andrew Talansky. Another retired pro rider. Andrew married the daughter of a long time friend of mine and they lived a mile from me. They moved to Tahoe and he's into triathlons now but when he was riding for Garmin Cannondale we would ride up valley on his rest days to get a coffee. Those guy's rest day rides are a normal ride for us mere mortals. Unbelievable how those pros can climb a hill, I swear they're aliens