Charmaine’s 100-mile Little Red Riding Hood competition is coming right up. She can’t afford to sit around and not ride. So this morning she convinced me to ride up Suncrest with her, saying we would probably get too tired and have to turn around at some point. For some reason, I agreed. We left straight from our house, rode up into Alpine, across to Highland, and up to Suncrest. It was pretty brutal. I think we got down as slow as 4 mph at some points. I even had to stop a couple times to drink and catch my breath.

But we made it all the way to the top.

It only took a few minutes to go back down, which was so much fun. I set a new personal best for top speed with 52.4 mph. We wound our way back through Highland and Alpine before cutting across the gulley by the Country Club to ride back home.

I think our total ascent was something like 1800 feet, which is pretty good for us. The only problem now is that I don’t have any more excuses.