Three days of riding in and 160 miles so far. The first day started out pretty chill, nice easy pace. When we got to cades cove, a seven mile climb it started to hurt a little bit, but over all not to hard of a day. Day two we headed for the top of the world climb. Top of the world starts out with two miles worth of steep switch back climbing. After that I took the guys on what was supposed to be a loop of climbing on tower road, but it turned out to be a dead end of very steep and rough climbing. Good times! After descending tower road we headed the rest of the way up top of the world. The second part is longer at six miles but there are spots to recover that make it easier than the first section. What goes up must come down and after all that climbing my legs welcomed the few mile decent down foothills parkway. Day three the boys did a longer dancing bear loop, I went shorter and did the day one ride adding webb and lovers road.
Three days of riding in and 160 miles so far. The first day started out pretty chill, nice easy pace. When we got to cades cove, a seven mile climb it started to hurt a little bit, but over all not to hard of a day. Day two we headed for the top of the world climb. Top of the world starts out with two miles worth of steep switch back climbing. After that I took the guys on what was supposed to be a loop of climbing on tower road, but it turned out to be a dead end of very steep and rough climbing. Good times! After descending tower road we headed the rest of the way up top of the world. The second part is longer at six miles but there are spots to recover that make it easier than the first section. What goes up must come down and after all that climbing my legs welcomed the few mile decent down foothills parkway. Day three the boys did a longer dancing bear loop, I went shorter and did the day one ride adding webb and lovers road.
