First Century of the year

Its a 100 days to my ride from San Francisco to Los Angles with ALC -2013, and what better way to celebrate than by riding a 100 miles in a day.

So on Saturday morning 2/23/2012 my friend Gino and I embarked on a 100 mile ride though the South Bay.

Our route started with a warm-up to Milpitas and then on to a 1000ft climb up Calaveras Blvd. We then went around Calaveras Reservoir into the City of Fremont via Niles Canyon. Both Calaveras Reservoir and Niles Canyon were gorgeous routes.
From Fremont we rode across the Dumbarton Bridge to East Palo Alto and took the Bayshore trail to the Stevens Creek trail to end up on Foothill Blvd where we stopped for a well deserved lunch of sandwiches and chocolate croissants at the Los Altos Bakery & Cafe

After lunch we continued on to Palo Alto-->Atherton-->Woodside and then looped back to ride back to Santa Clara.

Elapsed time: 9:05 hrs
Total riding time: 7:00 hrs
Avg Speed: 14.4 mph

Link to Strava: http://app.strava.com/activities/42017157

Pictures along the ride:

 

Panorama of Calaveras Reservoir

 

 Calaveras Road

      

 

Beautiful day to ride

 

End of the ride

First Month of Training - Jan 2013

Today, Jan 31st marks the end of the first month of training for ALC 2013.  Its been a really cold January for riding and I had to start riding with ski gloves cause my finger were freezing during the rides.
My stats for this month are in and I am very pleased with the data:

Total Distance : 267.3mi
Elevation Gain: 9,380ft

 My Goal for February is to roughly double these numbers, so I'd like to be at:

Total Distance: 500 miles
Elevation Gain: 20,000ft

Additional details, ride maps and a few photos are on my Strava profile here