So it was a beautiful day today so decided to grab the road bike and ride the Stage One route for Monday’s Tour of California. It was an awesome day riding through the redwoods to Occidental then up the steeps of Coleman Valley Road (in reverse direction). You go along the coastal mountain ridgetops which are around 1500’ above the coast which you can see off to the west. This is open range country so not unusual to have to come across cows on the road. There are some great steep switchbacks you hit towards the end that drop you right down on Highway One just north of Bodega Bay.
Their was a big southwest surf that was pounding the rocky shorelines with 15 - 20 footers which are pretty common in the winter up here. Lots of bikes out riding the route and enjoying the temps in mid 60’s. Just awesome…can’t wait to see the peloton Monday. Are you guys down in the Penninsula seeing many of them out riding? There was a film crew at bottom of Coleman Valley climb doing some pre-race shooting of the climb and coastal area.
I rode with a bunch of triathletes…those SRCC folks sleep in too late for me. That cross race looked interesting. It got a nice write up in the paper today given the charity element of building a bike shop in Africa. That is a great cause.
The film crew I saw was at bottom of Coleman Valley at Highway 1. They were filming a segment for pre-race coverage.
Did you ride with the SRCC? They did the same ride basically. I was over in Galvan Park at the cyclocross race.
All the teams were out riding yesterday and two of my bike teammates were out shooting for one of the bike companies and got to meet a bunch of folks.