California spring day, with lush greenery everywhere, flowers and more than a few wild turkeys strutting their stuff. We road from Roseville, 9 miles to Karen's Bakery with a little chill in the air - but a good warm up for the climbing to come.The 7 of us in the peloton group left from
Karen's bakery and headed out of Folsom out Blue Ravine , up Iron Point and over highway 50 onto Scotts Rd and then on White rock up into El Dorado Hills.The route climbed almost continuously for the first 40 miles of the 60mi total. We took Steve Ward's suggestion of taking Cothrin Ranch Road in order to limit the
amount of riding on Latrobe Rd - which tends to be busy and has little to no shoulder. The road is gorgeous with wonderful views but with lots of climbing on gradesof 14-15% and up to 18% . We did go astray once and climbed a very steep hill we did not need to up to Grazing Hill Rd. After only one ride in 3 weeks following the double century in Solvang Lisa and I were not able or willing to keep pace with Joel, Bruce, Kevin and Stan - but we regularly regrouped and had a great rideAfter hitting Motherload the group
split with Ron, Lisa, Bruce and Ryan heading straight to Green Valley while Stan, Kevin, and Joel took the road up to Missouri Flats before turning back to Rescue. In Rescue we stopped for water about 10 or 15 minutes ahead of the others and Lisa and I decided a ham sandwich at the local pub sounded good - and it was :)Recharged we headed up on Deer Valley and Malcolm Dixon before the run back on Green valley over to the Folsom Dam
Crossing and Folsom Auburn Road. Ron Ryan and Lisa got caught by the light on Green valley and lost contact with the other and made our own way back to the start point. We then retraced our step back to Roseville just as the wind started to pick up.So we ended up with 75 miles and about 5200ft of climbing.
For other pictures of the peloton group on the ride... check out the post:
http://cyclefolsompeloton.blogspot.com/
cheers
R & L
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