Today I drove up to Natural Bridge, VA today to ride with teammates G-Wad and Jay Catleggs (Gordon Wadsworth, Jay Catlett). Frank Deal and Dan Netzer also joined us. We rode the monstrous 12 mile 3000 foot Orchard Mountain climb twice, with a little warmup before hand. The first time up, Dan and I hit it pretty hard, and halfway up I went even harder, riding alone the rest of the way up. The second ascent was more leisurely and threw in some painful low cadence strength work. Both times down we hauled as much ass as possible, and since the road was only about 5-6% grade most of the climb this involved a lot of pedaling...
The day was clear, the sun came out after a cloudy and raining night and morning. It was beautiful. The view from the Blue Ridge Parkway to the valley floor 3000 feet below was pretty incredible.
Gordo snapped this pic of me and Jay at the tippy top of the climb
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