Massive changes in our weekend plan left me a bit of time this morning for ride (something I didn’t think would happen this weekend). With only about one hour to ride, I did what any sane person would do–ride Dirty Dozen hills: High Street, Logan, and Suffolk/Hazelton/Burgess. Logan is merely a matter of focus, I think. Yeah, it’s steep, but it’s just about focusing on the small patch of pavement in front of my wheel and turning the cranks. Suffolk was harder than I remember. For some reason, I envisioned Hazelton being this long stretch of flat between the two hills, but in reality it’s about 10 meters long, and not flat.

I wanted to finish on Sycamore, but crazy traffic in town, thanks to the Pitt game, cut my time short. I instead finished by climbing Stanton, which is very much not at all steep compared to the DD hills.

I think am I still very much undecided about the Dirty Dozen. Could be fun, but requires boatloads of suffering. We’ll see if anyone can convince to join the madness.

Posted on 30 August 2008