Solo ride from home up toward Julian. We were going up to pick up Emily from camp, so I took the opportunity to ride up as far as I could get. Started early, but the weather was warm and got warmer. Okay through the San Pasqual Valley, then up to Ramona on the 78. It seemed that I used the lowest gear a lot more than past rides up this grade, but I didn't feel any ill effects. Got into Ramona at 1:13 riding time, again feeling okay. Refilled my water bottle with energy drink and headed up to Santa Ysabel via the Old Julian Highway route. This part of the route was decent. I stopped around the 25 mile mark and had a hammer gel packet. A long climb portion came just after this point. I took my time on the way into Santa Ysabel and didn't feel bad, just hot. I stopped for a bit in Santa Ysabel, and it was toasty! Got there in around 2:25 riding time. I was sweating pretty good. Heading up the 78 out of Santa Ysabel, I started to feel some tightness in my quads. I thought I would take it easy and not push it, just try to get as far as I could. I think the hammer gel kicked in about this time, because I had a good stretch of slow, steady riding up the grade into Wynola. Felt good enough to continue, but I started slowing down more and really feeling it in my quads. Kept going as far as I could and ended up about 3 miles outside Julian before my quads shut down. I recovered fairly quickly (legs okay within about an hour), but it felt good to catch a ride with Ann the rest of the way into Julian and on to Camp Cedar Glen.
Average speed = 13.1 mph. Total mileage = 38.1 mi.
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