Oh, maybe that was Paul Revere, not Henry Coe, but Ann and I did another twosome up Henry Coe today on our tandem. There was a club ride scheduled at 2:30 pm up the hill. Ann and I have biked that club ride together a couple times in the past. However it has been very warm, and when I biked up Metcalf on Tuesay and Henry Coe yesterday late, it was hot both times, so we decided to leave early and start the climb before 11 am.

I slipped the camera in the back pocket of my jersey so Ann could take some pictures. I didn’t realize it was in the “movie mode”. Click here to see what happend!

We finally made it to the top and I switched the camera to still picture mode and we grabbed these shots.

Last night I had timed my climb over the distance that is used by the San Jose Bicycle club for the hill climb time trail, from Wood Chopper up to the upper parking lot, just short of 7 miles with a total climb of over 2,000 feet. Jim and I were riding on the easy side and ended up with a time of 51:40. My average heart rate for that segment was 132. Nothing to write home about since a good time trail time would be around 40 minutes. But we were taking it easy, although we were still ahead of the rest of the riders.

So as a point of comparison, I checked the time today on the tandem and it took us 58:16, with an average slightly lower average heart rate of 130. Not bad, I thought. Again we were not really pushing it hard today because I am going mountain biking this evening.

When I get into serious training for the Everest Challenge, I will see if I can break 40 minutes, but on my single bike, not the tandem!!!

Later in the day Franz went Mountain Biking at Harvey Bear.

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