March 27, 2010 8:00 AM. 29 attended.
Spring Series 4: C35 "Extending Zach's Ride"
Newcastle/Indian Hill Park n Ride (map)
Terrain: mixture of rural and urban (is Auburn really urban?), hilly, both up and down
Distance: about 35 not all easy miles
Speed: if you're good, 14 mph, or 11 mph if you're still working on it
Rider Level: if you've been here for the whole series, you are pretty much an Intermediate now. If you are new to the series, this will be a good Intermediate final exam.
Sweep: yes, we'll be there for you
Departure time: 8:15
This is the last in the Spring Series of Intermediate Rides, not quite the longest of the bunch, but with the most climbing of all. We return to the Newcastle Park N Ride for the start, but forego Indian Hill Rd in favor of some new hills, namely Powerhouse and Shirland Tract Rds. Then we find a new route through Auburn, part of which will be used by the Amgen Tour in May. After that we show you a new climb, which gives us a fun downhill to now-familiar Mt Vernon Rd, which we use briefly to get to the delightful rural valley featuring Millertown Rd. Then we extend our use of Wise Rd to head west, and enjoy a thrilling descent to the valley floor on Crater Hill and Chili Hill Rds. Soon we head further west on Fruitvale and Hungry Hollow Rds, which we used briefly in Ride 1, before returning eastward on Virginiatown Rd to once again test our legs and lungs on Ridge Rd. It should be interesting to see if our conditioning has improved since the ascent of Ridge on Zach's ride the week before.
Here is a link to the map and cue sheet.
Of course you should bring some refreshments, especially of the liquid variety, and by now you will all know about things like helmets, maybe even mirrors. And bring a camera, as the flowers should be out in force by then. Not that many of you will be looking at flowers or thinking about photography going up Ridge Rd (unless, like our erstwhile leader Jeff S, you see an opportunity to justify a rest period 
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If you haven't been on other rides in the Spring Series, you might want to check with one of the club's Assistant Organizers with whom you've already ridden to see if they think you are up to tackling this ride. Tell them it's a C35 with 2600' of climbing.
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SteveMD
Enjoy this one, all of you Spring Series veterans. This will make you an official HW Intermediate Rider. I'll miss you on this one, but think about the Tour de Lincoln in May! That will tie all of these rides together, plus show you a couple more great roads.
Posted March 26, 2010 at 7:50 AM -
Mica Dugan
Cue sheet has been updated with regroups and a few cautions on turns.
Posted March 26, 2010 at 9:15 AM -
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Mica Dugan
@ Javier: I have 35 cue sheets for everyone. Should have enough.
@ Scott: Well, that's the implication ;-p
Posted March 26, 2010 at 10:35 AM -
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susan
Beautiful ride! Accidentally cheated myself out of 10 miles, though...if Blaine ever tells you about a little 2 mile short cut... don't listen! Did we abandon Rex at Gold? That was mean! Sorry Rex!!! I plead ignorance!
Nice to meet some new faces today.... Lynnie, Randy and Don.
Thank you, Mica and Chris for another fun ride!!!Posted March 27, 2010 at 12:24 PM -
Linnie
I took the short cut coming back; had just climbed Baxter (in middle ring again!). But didn't know the easy way took 10 miles off the total ride. Boo Hoo. I will be riding Winters Wonderland tomorrow. The 24 miles I did rider was great.
Posted March 27, 2010 at 12:55 PM -
A former member
Great diverse group of riders. Do we get to do this again?
Oh yes - Patty, nice to see & talk with you again after all these years! Take care.
Posted March 27, 2010 at 3:04 PM -
Don
I had a great time riding with you all today. It was nice meeting new people.... I'm looking forward to riding more with you!!!
Posted March 27, 2010 at 4:39 PM -
Steve Smith
Thanks Mica for the cue sheets and for leading the ride. Had a great time. Bob and I missed a turn and figured it out about 3 miles down the (wrong) road. Backtracking we got back on course, but struggled to catch up with the group. We ended up doing 42 miles total. I wish I had taken Lynn's and Susan's short cut!
Posted March 27, 2010 at 5:07 PM -
Bob
A great ride even with that one wrong turn. The hills challenged me yet again, and though I'm not too tired now, my bike is exhausted.
Posted March 27, 2010 at 7:11 PM -
Frank B
Thanks Mica and Chris for leading this leg-burner of a ride, on a day with weather so good I may have actually sunburned my knuckles--good stuff :) Didn't have a flat until the start of the animal ride back to Folsom; maybe I ran over some of those wood screws that the cyclist-hater truckers said they'd been throwing down on Ridge Rd. Sigh...
Posted March 27, 2010 at 9:29 PM -
Javier Arroyo
@ Frank, yea funny how brave 2 dudes in a truck driving by are when facing multiple riders ...I didn't see them stop to get out of his truck and say their little joke.
Posted March 28, 2010 at 9:39 AM -
Randy Smith
Thanks, Chris and Mica I enjoyed a great ride. I had fun riding riding with the young guns from the High School M.B. Team on this ride, that is when we could keep up with them!
Posted March 28, 2010 at 3:35 PM -
Mica Dugan
Congrats to all that completed the Spring Series! Doing these roads often will increase your speed and stamina on hills, plus get you ready to do more! Towards the end of the route we got a little split up due to flat tires (me), chain issues (Chris), wrong turns by a few, and "shortcuts" (Blaine ;-p). Though we all made it back in one piece. A few of us enjoyed the fruits of our labor after at the Newcastle Produce and Deli. See you all soon.
Posted March 28, 2010 at 5:33 PM -
Javier Arroyo
@ Randy ...welcome to my world!! ...just finshed 66 miles of trying to keep up with 6 of them in fact :-\
Posted March 28, 2010 at 5:46 PM
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Mike P.Group SupporterGreat ride!!! Thanks Steve, Mica, and Chris for putting together a wonderful introduction to some of the hills in the area. This was a fanatastic way for us to get into cycling and I'm pretty sure we're hooked.
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Adrienne VGroup Supporter, Assistant OrganizerBeautiful day for a ride..started out a bit brisk, but warmed up quickly. Nice to see so many folks join us. I had a slow leak that Chris helped out with, and then it went completely flat when we got back to Newcastle at which point Blaine changed the tube for me....and, this time, it held air.
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Rob RyersonGroup SupporterGreat ride! Ended up with 76.3 miles and 5700 ft in 5:10 ride time with the animal miles in from Folsom. Nice to see and ride with everyone. And the 1st return to Bald Hill turn was slow and steady! :D
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Rick RasmussenGroup Supporter, Assistant OrganizerGreat ride, great weather, fun good. But it's hard to do a bunch of climbing in the very beginning of a ride when the legs are cold and stiff.
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Karen PrestonGroup SupporterSteveMD was right!!! The Ridge was much better the second time in 7 days.
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Javier ArroyoGroup Supporter, Assistant Organizer+3 guestsGreat route Mica & Chris ....although I gotta say no matter how many times I climb Ridge Rd, it's still a major suckfest :-|
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LinnieGroup SupporterMicha, very pleasant; maps that he provided were right on. I think we counted 29 riders; that is a nice turn out.
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Folks, I'll be bringing updated cue sheets with regroups put in.