Evening Ride with Sandra (video)

 25 miles and about 1200 ft gain with Sandra along the Donut Man Ride.  She was looking pretty strong today. She says she hates climbing and has been trying for 6 years but isn't getting any better. I think she has improved plenty since we rode together a year or two ago. Time goes so fast that I forget how long it has been ha ha ha!

One thing that makes it hard for me is that she switches up the course every time we ride. I think I'm going one way and feeling good then she suggests a different direction once I'm beyond the point or turn. I can't hear her from a distance with cars and wind in my ears especially while descending at 24 or so. Next thing I know, she's turning or something that throws me off. But we talked about it and I suggested a little notice before hand so that I know what to do or go if she is changing the course. Like the couple of cul de sac streets that she went up to climb.  One with a 13.6 percent grade. Though I wonder if she makes these suggestions and changes to surprise me causing me to slow down ha ha ha!

But either way, it seems I get a pretty good workout riding with Sandra which is good.

Did meet a couple of nice people at the Dount Man. We rode up and they started asking questions about cycling and we started a pretty good chat about eating right and stuff like that.  Lady a bit older, think she was with her son, but very nice. Told us about the cop that told her she had to ride on the street and not the sidewalk.  The guy much younger and seemed to be into exercise started chatting about everything about nutrition.  Interesting.

Did get a little darker this time towards the end of the ride. Getting darker earlier and we did finish about 8:15 pm. But a good ride and Sandra looking strong. One dude on a YT video left a comment saying  Sandra was a beast ha ha ha! I told her and she denied it but I will say that with all the women that rode with us in the group couple years ago, I think she is one of the better climbers now. I met some strong female riders on those group rides but most of them complained if they knew there was a climb on the ride. Sandra looks for climbs and is doing well. I bet if she rode with those riders again, she would be surprised with Bad self ha ha ha!

Freaking Ozzie had to die! I was going to use an Ozzie song for the video but before I could, I got an email saying they muted my past video with an Ozzie song due to copyrights. Never had a problem with Ozzie songs on YT but now I do. Darn! So I used American Woman by The Guess Who but copyright issues as well so not viewable in Russia. I can deal with that ha ha ha!

The 13.6 grade Sandra used to torture me. Not having climbing gears, I had to stand which is unusual for me. 53/39 -13/26 gearing so this was steep. I used these gears and bike climbing up to Big Bear  5 times over the years but I don't think it had this steep of a grade along the way. But I survived.

Couple random characters cause you never know who might know them.

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