Utah State Road Biker

Few things are more exhilarating than blowing snot rockets with one hand on the handlebar at 35 mph down a 6% grade.  If you haven't figured it out by now, I did a little descending on Thursday (Aug 12th).  Okay... a lot of descending... But I also did a lot of climbing, so I EARNED those 35 mph snot rockets.  I went on a long ride to the tune of nearly 5 hours on SR-65, and since I decided to add all the little short highways I also did SR-86. SR-65 starts at I-80 near Mountain Dell Reservoir.  It heads north, descending down a short hill to Mountain Dell Golf Course where it then climbs a steep grade for a mile until it levels out and passes Little Dell Reservoir.  About a mile after passing the reservoir, the road ascends a little over 4 miles to the top of Big Mountain Pass where it continues down into East Canyon.  A short while later, it passes East Canyon Resort , then East Canyon Reservoir where it intersects with SR-66 .  The road meanders north east for a little less t

August is here, July is over.  Time for a 2010 goal update.  July's goal was 400 miles cycling, 65 miles running 15 km swimming.  I fell short of the biking goal and biked 301.33 miles.  I smashed the running goal and ran 95.2 miles this month.  A big portion of that was running two half marathons this month.  The Handcart Days Half Marathon and the Crandall Canyon Memorial Half Marathon .  K Jo and I both ran both of those races.  I did them as training runs in preparation for the Bear Lake Brawl Half Ironman.  Handcart Days Half was in Bountiful.  I ran the first 3.5 miles w/ K Jo then kissed her and said, "Have a good race, I am going to start running now."  I finished 2:02:41, K Jo finished in 2:24:37.  It was a good race and a nice course, but there were only three aid stations and no bathrooms that I could see on the course.  Crandall Canyon started at 8800 feet at the top of Huntington Canyon then rose and descended to the entrance of the Crandall Canyon where the