Four of us cruised up to Sausalito and Tiburon via the Camino Alto hill and Paradise Drive before taking the ferry back. About 35 miles of riding, here’s a quick map: (a special shout-out to f for doing this as his first ride since the Foster City Flats ride a year ago). Pre-ride savory pastries at Tartine: Biking along the panhandle: ...
Meeting 10:30am at the planter by the golden gate bridge gift shop (I’ll be hitting up the ferry bldg farmers market earlier for some Primavera & Blue Bottle), then doing [this 40ish-mile loop through Sausalito and Tiburon](<http://www.mapmyride.com/ride/united-states/ca/san-francisco/551127079691337454). Relaxed pace– there will be some people on the ride who haven’t been on a bike in a year, and the scenery is worth appreciating.
This is a nice evening ride/workout: we left Sports Basement around 5:20, and probably got back to it around 8(?), while it was still light out. And the climb and descent on Camino Alto were good. Here’s the rough map (38 miles RT from Potrero, or about 25 RT from Sports Basement). It was ridiculously windy, though– side-gusts nearly skidding my bike on the bridge and a painful headwind while coming back up the post-Sausalito hill (*shakes fist at sky*). ...
Riding in the evenings while the weather / light / job situation permit: Leaving work a little early Monday (today) to meet up at 5pm at the Presidio Sports Basement with a few people for a jaunt into Marin. Butter Lap on Wednesday (7pm at the Ferry Building, low-key loop around the city and then a beer, see more notes in previous posts). A few of us biked Paradise Loop yesterday afternoon, and it was a great day for it– sunny, warm, and fairly low-traffic so we could just zoom. We took the ferry back from Tiburon (and were considering stopping at Angel Island for a bike around it before catching the next ferry home, but that didn’t work out– next time?).
It was a generally good day, and a fairly long one (I racked up 67 miles, though it was much less hilly than the Alpine Dam loop). Three of us went on the ride, which was a mix of the usual nice Presidio / Golden Gate / Sausalito ride, a lot of boring suburban and busy-streets riding up by Larkspur / San Rafael, and several few-mile sections of good views in China Camp, and on Irwin and Corte Madera (taking the less direct, more hilly, back streets route on the way back was worth it). Fun, but I didn’t like it as much as some other rides I’ve done. ...
Here’s an approximate map of yesterday’s ride (including my route back), suggesting the total ride was probably 25-30 miles depending where you started and ended. I think we left the Ferry Building at 11 and got back to SF around 4, with lunch and some walking around in Sausalito in the middle. That was fun! Maybe next time we can plan out a post-ride place to grab some foor/beer ahead of time.
Seven of us on the ride today, here’s a photo from a stop in Sausalito. Overall ride about 20-25 miles, depending on route: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2704771