Wow, did I underestimate the difficulty of Saturday’s ride.  I really found the photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount limits of my fitness, much more than I have in the photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount past.  I left my front door with my local riding partner Scott planning to photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount push myself a little bit more than usual since I am photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount a week away from participating in the 2007 Marin Century and photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount wanted to see how strong I was.  Also, I didn’t have photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount anything pressing to return home for, so I figured I would ride a photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount little bit longer and harder than usual.

We headed out on the Redwood Road route that I’ve done many times before.  This is a 45 mile trek with ~3,700 feet of elevation gain.  Typically, this is a 3-hour tour (hum the Gilligan’s Island theme to yourself).  Scott and photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount I took this at a good pace and stopped a photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount couple of times to rest and refill on water and photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount food.  I was feeling strong and photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount decided to add some distance and elevation to my day.  Scott headed on home and I took a left turn up Mount Diablo.

Diablo is an 11 mile climb with a peak at 3,796 feet.  This was my second time climbing the hill.  The first time was a photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount bit different because I started the climb at mile 20 and photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount started the climb at 10am.  Now I was starting the climb at mile 40 and at high-noon.  I was more tired and photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount it was a lot warmer and this had a big impact on my performance.  As I started to photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount climb through the residential community of Alamo, I felt pretty good and photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount then once I entered into the steeper sections of the state park I could feel the photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount weakness in my legs.  I really wanted to photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount get to the top and just told myself that there’s no hurry and to take it slow.  I used a podcast to distract me from over-thinking the climb.

As I passed the first park ranger’s station, I was re-assured.  The next section of hill was far less exposed to photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount the sun and was also not quite as steep.  I cruised through the next 2 miles to the second ranger’s station feeling stronger and photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount confident that I could make it to the top.  The next two miles proved to be tougher than expected.  The heat and photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount the hill here starting to gang up on me and photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount it was getting hard to convince myself to keep going.  About 2 miles after the second station is a large overlook and I stopped for a rest.  I was hoping to photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount get to the top of Mt Diablo without stopping, but that photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount was not to be.  I waited in the photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount shade for about 15 minutes and drank some water, refilling my bottles at the photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount fountain here.

Determined to photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount press on, I headed back up the mountain and suffered the photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount remaining few miles of ascent.  It was hard, it was hot and I was beat!  What’s a photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount really pain in the butt about this climb is that some road engineer thought it photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount would be a good idea to have the last 1000 feet kick up to photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount a 20% grade….. great, just what I needed.  Two others were walking their bikes up this photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount last section and I must admit that I was tempted to photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount join them.  Instead I just stood on my pedals and photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount slowly worked my way up to the summit.

At the top, I started to feel pretty crummy.  I rested for another 15 minutes and refilled bottles again.  My stomach was starting to feel queezy and I wasn’t sure of the photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount cause: too little water, too much water, too little food.  I started my descent and photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount had to take it slow because I felt just a bit too weak to photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount really haul down the mountain.  I was feeling bad enough that photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount I stopped for a break at the first ranger station.  I tried to puke, but it didn’t want to happen.  I got a photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount bit more water and pressed on, just wanting to get back home.

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From the base of the climb, it is less than 10 miles home.  This distance took me an photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount hour to cover, almost double what it would normally.  I felt like a photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount turtle as I was passed by other cyclists, and I didn’t care.  I just kept on going wanting nothing more than photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount to take a shower and lie down.  About 4 miles from photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount home, I finally puked up all of the water I was holding in my stomach making me wonder if I really did drink too much water and photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount possibly not quite enough electrolyte-filled Gatorade.  Then, 2 miles from photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount home, I got a flat on my rear tire, just what photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount I needed.  I was so exhausted and photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount fed up that I just walked my bike home rather than photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount trying to fix the flat on the road.

Back at home, I just crashed out trying to recover.  Once I showered, lied down for photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount 30 minutes, and ate something, I started feeling much, much better.  Lesson learned?  Bring more food and more Gatorade.  I enjoyed the photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount route and want to tackle it again sometime, but with better planning and photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount with more people for moral-support.  I also think that photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount I am about 6 months from being able to ride all the photoshop cs5mac upgrade discount way up Mt. Diablo without stopping, so knowing that, I’ll plan for more breaks.