Rist Canyon Road Ride

Today I opted out of the $5 cyclocross race that New Belgium puts on every Tuesday (starting today). Instead, I rode up Rist Canyon. I've talked about this ride before on here, so it should sound a little familiar. It's a 10 mile climb that's about 6 miles away from where I live. Nice little warm up before you actually hit the sustained climb. Anyway, I've done this climb a total of 3 times now. The first two times it was well over an hour before I made it to the top, which is about 8300 feet. So total, my ride today was 6400 feet of climb. Don't know how exactly because the climb itself is a little under 4000 feet. To get to the climb, I had to do some climbing over the actual foothills. Anyway, today I pushed myself to places I didn't think I could go. I made it to the top in just over 52 minutes. Coming back down, it took me 17 minutes. I have no idea what a fast time is up this climb. For me, it felt fast, but who knows. The altitude doesn't bother me nearly as bad any more. I wish I would have worn a heart rate monitor. I'm sure I would have averaged 190 or so relatively easy. The total ride for me was 33miles, by the time I got home and what not. When I got to the top, there were two guys in what looked like race car suits with race car helmets. They had skate boards of some sort. I really didn't pay too much attention, called them crazy and off they went. I got a picture of them though. Check it out here. It was interesting, for sure. Alright that's all for now. There's pictures from this past weekend on that site as well. I found out I placed 7th overall out of almost 40. Not to shabby. I would have placed 5th overall in the 1/2's but I guess 2 cat 3's beat me. Hard to tell who is who around here. Have a good night!!
-A