Up the Creek without a Pedal

The name of this century ride grabs your attention. Riding these roads will bring you back.

I had ridden a portion of this route (Pocket Road) during the 2006 BRAG, and was happy to be revisiting these roads.

Pat, Jack, Charles, Larry, David and I stayed together most of the route. We were joined at various times by others who kept -- and often raised -- our pace. Even though we were riding alongside low mountain ridges the whole day, we only had one climb that really got us breathing hard. The flatness and the number of strong riders gave us a fast pace: we averaged 20.0 MPH over the 100 miles, and were getting faster as the day wore on.

When we finished and were checking our bike computers, Pat had guesstimated that we had finished the ride in a little over 5 hours. My computer recorded 5:00:02 -- two seconds over 5 hours.

Got to play with the Nuvi 200 GPS some. It is able to record tracks if you use version 3.40 of the firmware. There were two drawbacks to the device: 1) it only has a 4 hour battery life and 2) the touchscreen is easy to accidentally turn off your recording. The first limitation is more serious than the second if you're careful where the unit is placed.

I've mapped the century route in bikely.com.