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This is documentation of a personal century ride for the UMCA Year-Rounder Challenge. The basic idea is to make at least one 100-mile ride in each month of 2007. It gets me out when it might otherwise be too easy to say “too bad the weather wasn't better this month.”

July 22, 2007

Route Overview

This is a variation on routes I have taken from Eugene to Tenmile before, adding two hills (Dillard Road from Eugene toward Creswell and Hamm Road from Creswell toward the town of Lorane) and taking away two smaller hills (Lorane Hwy in south Eugene and Lorane Hwy again at welder's hill, just before it meets Fox Hollow).

I had some serious foot soreness at about the 95 mile mark, coming into Lookingglass, Oregon, which slowed me down a bunch in the last 15 miles. I would have been smarter to get off the bike in Lookingglass and walk around a little, or to take a break in Wilbur or Melrose. Skipping my usual food stop in Wilbur probably cost me time, overall, because in addition to the final slowdown I eventually was forced to get off the bike for a few minutes on Coos Bay Wagon Road, before the last climb. Aside from that lesson learned, it was a good ride, and it was nice to get three full centuries (as well as another 87 mile ride) in the month of July.

Route map

As gpx (open in some route viewing applications, including GPS Visualizer) or as kml (open in Google Earth).

Time/Distance Plot

Distance/Elevation Profile