SR-151






A few months ago K Jo was working on our computer when it crashed... and we lost EVERYTHING. Pictures, music, video game save files, you name it, it was gone. About a week prior to the crash, I had moved all of my state road data from my flash drive to my desktop and never got around to moving it back so I lost all of that too. Pictures, maps, elevation profiles and perhaps most devastating... the list. I spent hours on that list and now it was gone, SO I have once again been working on a list of all the state roads in Utah. This time I just decided to go for broke and make a list of all the state highways, including the ones shorter than 5 miles unlike I had previously planned. While working on the new list, I decided that hitting the short routes would not be too difficult, it would just require a lot of planning. So the other day (Friday June 4th) I headed out on a training ride and decided to add SR-151 (aka 10600 S, aka South Jordan Pkwy aka 10400 s). As I said before, this is one of the short routes only 4.2 miles long. My actual training ride was about 18.8 miles. The highway starts at SR-154 (Bangerter hwy) then heads straight east and drops to the Jordan River where it rises briefly to terminate at I-15 in Sandy. I did this road backwards and started at I-15. This is one of those deceptively flat roads on the west side of the Salt Lake Valley where you will be riding along pushing yourself thinking "I am making great time." only to look at your bike computer and realized that you are making less than 15 mph and you don't understand why until you finish the ride and look at an elevation profile and realize that you climbed about 325 feet in 3.5 miles... Then you feel a little bit better about yourself. The rest of the ride was great because it was all downhill. I finished the ride in just over an hour so I was feeling pretty fast. The next day I did the Salem Spring Triathlon. I am waiting on pictures from that so show up so you will see a post about that soon.

This ride was 18.8 miles I did it in just over an hour averaging just under 18.8 mph. I don't remember the top speed but it was probably somewhere in the 30s. This is the 13th state road I have ridden. Total mileage: 388.1. Total state road mileage: 169.2 miles. Thanks again for reading.


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