What is this?

This is documentation of a 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.”

September 23, 2007

Route Overview

• Start: 8:17am, Salem, OR
• Stop: 3:10pm, Salem, OR
• Miles: 100

The Peach of a Century is the last of the organized century rides in the Willamette Valley each fall. This year attendance was extraordinary &emdash; I overheard an organizer calling volunteers to make supermarket trips to pick up extra supplies for an unexpected surplus of 300 day-of-ride registrations. Weather was cool (I never did take off my windbreaker and arm warmers) but dry. The route was altered for 2007, with more climbing than before, though it's still more rollers than serious climbing. There is one long but not hard climb and then a fast descent into Mt Angell.

UMCA rules are a bit fuzzy on whether this should be filed as a personal century or an organized century, since the organizers do not post a list of finishers or vouch for individual finishers. I documented it with GPS records, and include links to route map and event web site (now already updated to planned 2008 event) for the latter.

Route map

A route map and cue sheet was provided by the Salem Bicycle Club, organizers of the event.

I also made a record of the route as gpx (open in some route viewing applications, including GPS Visualizer) and as kml (open in Google Earth).

Time/Distance Plot