Saturday, January 16, 2010

Rode Ortega Hwy today


I haven't been on the bike in a week and decided I needed some seat time. According to weather reports it's going to be raining for at least the next week, so I figured why not! I gassed up the bike, bought a few bottles of water and some redbull and headed out. I was going to take off my saddle bags, but I decided to leave them on. I need to get used to riding with them in place so now's as good a time as any. I gassed up in San Juan Capistrano and rolled out. It's been years since I'd been down Ortega, but not much has changed, other than the construction going on next to the road near the SJC end. The ride out to the lake would have been great if it weren't for the jerk in the Expedition whom refused to use the turnouts and sped up every time I tried to pass. What an asshat. The way out there was a nice and slow (make lemonade, right?). I stopped next to the lake (or as close as I could get - seriously, a whole gigantic lake and there's nowhere that I can hang next to the lake to eat my lunch of protein bars and Redbull, so I hung out in a parking lot stretching my legs. After I made some headway digesting the quasi-cardboard and the sugar water I headed back up the mountain. On the way back a dude in an Escalade pulled over to let me pass with a friendly wave and I had no traffic in front of me for quite a ways, until some guy on a stretched out chopper decided that 30mph was the way to go. I pulled off and watched some ants eating a dead lizard for about 15 minutes, no cars passed, and I rolled out with all the new free space in front of me. All in all it was a good day; I got lots of video with the GoPro, which I'll post below.
Ride from Ortega to SJC 1 of 4

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