Yesterday was like the biggest biking day of the year. I both road biked and mountain biked the same day. It started out that I wanted to do a regular 2 hour road ride in the morning and take it easy, but it turned out to be a 2 and half hours. Then I wanted to mountain bike in the afternoon after I ate lunch, I've decided that after my morning ride. My brother and his family came for a visit and said they were heading up the mountain and fish. My mom decided to go up because it was at Lake Hill, so I took a lift up and decided to ride down the Pioneer Trail and Flume Trail from Lake Hill. When I was dropped off, I decided to do some climbing but just for a little bit, I thought I could just go to the GBEEC, when I got there, I decided to go longer, to Bluebell. When I got to Bluebell, I felt going a little more, hmmmm, maybe to Philadelphia Flat. Nope, I didn't stop there, I went all the way to the top of the mountain and boy I was tired. About 2,500-3,000 feet of elevation of climbing(the top was at 10,500 feet), I think. Then I turned around and cruised down the canyon. Ended up going down the Pioneer and Flume trails.
I ended up riding 40 miles of road riding in the morning, from 5 Mile Junction through Spring City, Mt. Pleasant, Moroni, Wales, Chester, and Spring City again. It was great, no wind at all! I don't know how many miles on the mountain biking part but I assume around 22 or so, but it was a 2 and half hour ride also so I got a total of 5 hours of riding that day with road riding and mountain bike riding combined. I stayed in zones 2 and 3 all day but got into zone 4 sometimes, probably the hill climb I was in zone 4 for a little while. Going at that of a moderate pace just kept me going that long and it was great to go that long. I felt pretty good but very tired at the end(for some fat guy like me). I felt very rewarded though.
