This week's Tour

No, this isn't the big one. This is just a training ride.

We headed up to Portland (first time I've traveled with my full size bike on the plane).

Luckily when we got there we found a bike assembly area.  Portland is a very bike friendly place.  We didn't end up using the assembly area at the airport...

Thanks to Dennis for picking us up at the airport and playing tour guide with us all day Friday.  He and Jen hosted us on some great food and tours.

These pictures are over by the hospital and the tram which connects the lower campus to the upper campus.

 Dennis is having a great time on the tram.  I think was his first tram ride.

 The Vista house near Multnomah Falls:

 Greg...  What's this?  Was your Dad out visiting?  (BMW 2002)

That pretty waterfall...  Wasn't producing much water:

 

After touring around, Saturday Karyn and I rode.  I took the 100 mile route. 

 

I didn't get to ride with too many people, but I headed out with the head of the pack, and swapped back and forth for the first 10 miles with about 5 guys.  I dropped back cause I stopped for some water. (I only had one water bottle since I was traveling.)  I caught up to a guy wearing a Coors Native Colorado Jersey, turns out he's not from Colorado.  His name is Joe...  No kidding... Turns out he's training for the IMWI.  We chatted for a bit, he did want to talk about his training, but not with someone that he has to train with...  Turns out he normally trains with the guys I started out with...

After my second stop, I only 1 missed corner...  But that was the biggest climb of the day, only about 3 extra miles.

You can see from the arrows that the off course time was actually the steepest climbing and highest elevation.  I'm going to count this as training for the Copper Triangle coming up next week.

The Max speed on the Garmin connect must have a bug.  The top speed is 38.1 on the device and on the training center App.

 

My body was hurting a little bit at the 65 mile stop.  So I just grinded in from there.  Several groups passed me but since my average was more like 16 and they were running more like 18-19 I couldn't hold on for long.

I checked in that afternoon with Vineet, one of my interns at WD.  He's doing well at Intel, but misses the Colorado weather.  Once you move out of Colorado, you spend the rest of your life trying to move back...