Skip to main content.

What is this?

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.”

October 13, 2007

Route Overview

A little variation on the Brownsville loop: Instead of adding Fox Hollow on the end to bring it up to 100, I added an out-and-back from Crawfordsville (where Brush Creek meets Highway 228) to Sweet Home.

This feels much more like a single ride, rather than two spliced together, especially since Fox Hollow is where I fit in a quick ride after work or on a day when I don't have time to do any more. The bicycle route map produced by the city of Albany and distributed by the Mid-Valley Bicycle Club suggests some side roads (Crawfordsville Drive, Old Holley Road, Fern Ridge Road) that will make the out-and-back segment into more of a loop and give me less of Highway 228, so this seems like a very promising variation for future rides.

GPS readout (“trip computer”) says 116 miles, bike odometer (which is set stingy) says 107, and profile says 112. I actually think the profile is right (adding a 16 mile out-and-back can't turn a 90 mile ride into 116) and understand that the bike odometer is calibrated to slightly underestimate miles, but I'm baffled by the high reading on the Garmin trip computer function. I guess the lesson is to make sure conservative bike computer reads over 100 if I don't want an unpleasant surprise when I download and plot.

Weather was cold and foggy from Coburg to Mohawk, otherwise cool and rather nice.

Route map

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

Time/Distance Plot