Comments on: Derek’s favorite loops http://www.zumsteg.net/2005/05/25/dereks-favorite-loops/ Derek Zumsteg's site of doom Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:03:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: yakibiker http://www.zumsteg.net/2005/05/25/dereks-favorite-loops/comment-page-1/#comment-19 yakibiker Sat, 28 May 2005 05:46:00 +0000 http://www.zumsteg.net/?p=18#comment-19 Here's another great mega-miler. Leave your cousin's house in Yakima, ride through the gorgeous yet poorly-shouldered (fortunately lightly-trafficked and also well-troopered on weekends) Yakima River Canyon to Ellensburg. Get on 97 northwest of the 'burg, turn around when you get to the summit of Blewett Pass. What was that, Derek, 130 miles or so? Great prep for riding STP in a day. Here’s another great mega-miler. Leave your cousin’s house in Yakima, ride through the gorgeous yet poorly-shouldered (fortunately lightly-trafficked and also well-troopered on weekends) Yakima River Canyon to Ellensburg. Get on 97 northwest of the ‘burg, turn around when you get to the summit of Blewett Pass. What was that, Derek, 130 miles or so? Great prep for riding STP in a day.

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]]> By: Paul http://www.zumsteg.net/2005/05/25/dereks-favorite-loops/comment-page-1/#comment-20 Paul Fri, 27 May 2005 16:32:00 +0000 http://www.zumsteg.net/?p=18#comment-20 Another way of increasing miles on the Lake Washington loop is to loop around Seward Park a couple times before continuing south. <BR/><BR/>To increase hill intensity on that ride, instead of sticking to the lake, go up and over Capitol Hill - leave the BGT at Husky Stadium, go across the Montlake Bridge, up 24th, over to either Madison or Yesler, and down to the lake from there. The climb up 24th SUCKS, but the ride down Madison is fun. Another way of increasing miles on the Lake Washington loop is to loop around Seward Park a couple times before continuing south.

To increase hill intensity on that ride, instead of sticking to the lake, go up and over Capitol Hill – leave the BGT at Husky Stadium, go across the Montlake Bridge, up 24th, over to either Madison or Yesler, and down to the lake from there. The climb up 24th SUCKS, but the ride down Madison is fun.

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