Santa Clarita-Soledad Canyon
It’d been a week since the Solvang Prelude and I hadn’t ridden AT ALL. So, I couldn’t wait to get back on the saddle on Saturday morning to go on the away ride in Santa Clarita. 40 miles through some rolly hills, I was told. After the 63 miler in Solvang, it should be cake! Right?…. NOT.
By the time I was done, my bootie was hurtin’ and my knee was tweakin’. What happened? Did I get that out of shape in 1 week? I was perplexed… I did notice that it took a full 30 minutes of riding to get warmed up (legs were screaming in the first 15-20 minutes… :0\). The entire first half of the ride was up-hill! Doh! I rode mostly with Joy and JC who stayed with me throughout majority of the ride. I was even able to draft off him on the latter part of the ride down hill which was pret-ty fun, I must say. But all in all, I thought the Solvang scenery was much prettier than the rocky desert. No lions either.
I managed to dig through the Solvang Prelude pictures and find a picture of me on my bike during the race~! Unfortunately, they were selling the pictures for exhorbitant amounts - $25 for a coffee mug, $20 for a photo keychain, etc. You can imagine what a 5×7 cost, right? :-\ So, I just ripped off the picture from the website and saved it to my computer - that’s enough for me. But I wish they had taken one with me and RL.
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