6:30AM "A" Fastest Hour Ride 30 Miles Drop - PD Civic Ctr
Category
"A" Ride 20+ avg mph
Registration Info
Registration is not Required
Meet by the restroom next to the Skate Park
About this event
Packed into “the Fastest Hour” is 45 minutes of lung-busting, quad pumping flats with one relatively short 4% climb that comes two-thirds the way through the ride at just at the time your legs are trying to catch their breath. Leaving from PD Civic Park heading East on Magnesia Falls, North on Portola and East on Frank Sinatra before heading down Cook. After crossing the CA10 on Cook, the ride turns east onto Varner where it off takes with speeds quickly ramping up to around 30 mph. At Washington the ride turns south back over CA10, then rips west on Country Club, northwest on Tamarisk, and west on Frank Sinatra until Gerald Ford then Dinah Shore until it meets Portola again, this time at its most northern and lowest point. By now your lungs and legs will have been at max for more than 20 mins, so it’s the perfect time for a 5 minute max power climb south on Portola. Do what you have to to hold on because once you make it to Frank Sinatra, your home free for the most part. The remaining couple of miles south on Portola are slightly down hill then dead flat, so the 30 mph is just fine, especially if you stay tucked in and stuck onto the wheel in front of you. At Magnesia Falls it’s finally over with a turn west and a return to where you started, the Civic Center. Route is typical but subject to change.
20+ avg mph
30 miles
Drop ride
Need to be comfortable riding in a group, no aerobars