ah, i think hitting the pedestrian bridge over the tracks to myrtle edwards was pretty key. I wasn't sure if that was open to the public or not so i didn't try it.
The (publicly accessible, with elevators) Helix Bridge was Amgen's cost for their private waterfront fiefdom with the private flyover.
Maybe if we'd had them build a ramp up to the top of Kinnear Park, it would have been a fair trade.
Speaking of key routes, thanks to Mike for laying out the best route down Queen Anne to the west (to Dravus, which he gave us during the 7 Hills Race). Going from Myrtle Edwards to Queen Anne was a screwup, but once I got to the top of the hill, that was the way to go, and it saved me from totally falling into the pack as a result.
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DJStroky
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 9:15 pm
Joined: 25 May 2007Posts: 356Location: Downtown Tacoma
koos42 wrote:
(if not a little cruel, such big hills)
Psssh, the hills were nowhere near as bad as they were on the Polka Dot Rocker earlier this summer.
Now you've got me curious. I should put that route in routeslip and see what the elevation gain was.
Let me assist you with that. As I've mentioned for the third time on these forums now, if there ever is a gmap-pedometer route, it can be translated into a gpx file which can then be imported into mapmyride.com which shows elevation ascent and descent. I have found Mapmyride.com to be far superior to all the other map sites. It works so well for creating routes that follow roads because it will auto-follow roads to a point clicked on the map.
Here is your route
That must have been pretty grueling going for almost 65 miles.
Those street scrambles look like fun! Do you know if it is ok to take the bus on the foot only street scrambles?
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gsbarnes
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 10:21 am
Joined: 15 Aug 2006Posts: 2666Location: No Fun Town, USA
DJStroky wrote:
Let me assist you with that. As I've mentioned for the third time on these forums now, if there ever is a gmap-pedometer route, it can be translated into a gpx file which can then be imported into mapmyride.com which shows elevation ascent and descent. I have found Mapmyride.com to be far superior to all the other map sites. It works so well for creating routes that follow roads because it will auto-follow roads to a point clicked on the map.
Here is your route
That must have been pretty grueling going for almost 65 miles.
Those street scrambles look like fun! Do you know if it is ok to take the bus on the foot only street scrambles?
Thanks, man. I'm surprised I didn't even hit 2000 feet of elevation gain climbing Queen Anne, Magnolia, Capitol Hill and up to Bitter Lake (2nd highest point in the city if you didn't know), but I guess that means I planned my route well to minimize the elevation gain/loss.
Grueling was doing Street Scrambles towing Emmett; I took some questionable hills head on at times, which made it pretty easy to take these hills solo.
I think the 65 miles would have been fun if it weren't raining steadily. Even with the rain, it was pretty fun, except for the fact that everything I had that was paper slowly turned to mush, and the answers I'd written down on the waterproof paper started getting erased. Anyone who did the FHR this year knows what I mean.
So far buses have never been allowed, although my wife worked an event the organizers put on for a private company where they did allow buses, as well as cell phones. The idea was that there were clusters of checkpoints in various places, and your team was supposed to split up and collectively visit as many as they could. This kinda sounds like how the Messquerade runs (except you use bikes; but having someone coordinating things by cell phone sounds like a good plan).
You should try the UDistrict Street Scramble next year. You'd do well.
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