By Ryan McElroy
Pretty epic afternoon ride today. I started by searching out the Old La Honda Road climb to Skyline Boulevard (I took a wrong turn the first time and had to loop around to find it again), and then I headed south on Skyline all the way down to Black Road, which turned out to be a pretty crazy descent down to Highway 17. I found my way across, and then encountered an unexpected gravel descent on the Los Gatos Creek Trail. A mountain bike would have been appropriate at that point, but I survived. I then made my way back via Los Gatos-Saratoga Road and Saratoga-Sunnyvale Road before stopping for dinner at In-N-Out on El Camino and finishing up the ride. Skyline turned out to whip me pretty well, and I was struggling to keep up the pace on the flats afterward. Half of that is mental discipline, and the other half is physical readiness. At any rate, I haven’t been this sore after a ride since last year’s Seattle to Portland bike ride, which was more than three times as long.
- Distance: 66 miles / 106 km
- Time: 4:50:51
- Average Speed: 13.6 mph / 21.9 kph
- Max speed: 39.2 mph / 63.0
- Cumulative ascent: 3820 ft / 1164 m
By Ryan McElroy
Can anything really be this awesome?
By Ryan McElroy
The Sydney Opera House is visible under the Sydney Harbour Bridge in the early morning
The Sydney Opera House at night… from my hotel room!
Posted on Thursday 2009.02.05 at 3:41 pm in
photography
By Ryan McElroy
I have been remiss in updating the Checksum Arcanius Photo Gallery, but i got on my horse the last couple of days and have caught up. The uploaded photos encompass the months of July 2008 through January 2009, including the transition from my old Canon A610 camera to my new Canon SD 990 IS in December (thanks Dad!)
Of particular interest may be the photo of the enormous amount of snow recieved at my parent’s house:
About 30 inches of snow piled up outside my parent's place
Posted on Saturday 2008.09.13 at 12:45 am in
photography
By Ryan McElroy
I did some night photography with Dan tonight. Here is the happy result of about an hour under the Wilburton Tressel in Bellevue, combined into HDR with Photoshop:
By Ryan McElroy
After a long absence that began with the great file corruption of 2008, the Checksum Arcanius Photo Gallery is back. Now powered by the much-derided (by me) Gallery 2, I have come to terms what what seems to be the best photo hosting software out there.