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Crater Lake Rim Ride + Run

September 19, 2015 (Morning)

Exercise Type: Bike

Comments:
Up early with CA and packed up by 7ish, which was great. Had coffee along the way with lots of cream, but otherwise no breakfast. On the bikes by 8AM

Biked pretty easy (around CA's MAF pace) through a bit of low fire smoke through the north entrance, climbing to the rim.

Today was one of two bike-only days on the east rim, but for the first time, they're doing these supported (via Klamath County Chamber funding): this means aid stations every 5 miles...and a SHITLOAD of cyclists on the closed highway! On one hand it was cool; on the other, there was actually less solitude with no cars, but all the bikes.

Had to stop several times to walk the bikes over gravel repair zones, and some misc rest stops. Kept the watch rolling the whole time.

Took about 2hrs of riding to get to Mt Scott, where we simply left the bikes at the aid station: no one would steal them...there were no cars out there and only other cyclists! Strapped on the run shoes, and off we went.

Ran and mostly hiked (MAF pace) up Mt Scott. Had the place to ourselves! Rested up there a bit, took some cool action pics, then jogged pretty quick down...then back on the bikes!

The rest of the ride to the visitor center was big downs, and ups...made more exciting by the shitload of bikes, in both directions!

Got to the visitor center after a long threshold climb and had breakfast (at 2PM) of leftover birthday pancakes and nut butter, and a $1.95 visitor center coffee!

Then looked around and finished the ride. From the rim, we had a contest to see how far we could go without a single revolution of the pedal - just PURE BOMB! Made it >5 miles!

Easy ride back to the car.

Gosh, I really enjoy this tradition! Really fun!

PM: tried to jump into Diamond to rinse off, but it was gross (algae), so we hustled back to Eugene to meet up with some Hunters for a birthday cake-eating fest at T&G.