Short but Steep

So today in an attempt to reclaim some of my cycling hon­or after hav­ing giv­en climbed only halfway to Geary Ave from Ocean beach the oth­er day, I rode from my apart­ment to the Mount David­son cross. On the map, that’s only about one and a third miles, but it’s a climb to 927 feet above sea lev­el from my place off of Mis­sion Street. I don’t know what the alti­tude is here, but I rode past Glen park BART sta­tion, which is at 180 feet above sea lev­el. So that’s a 750 foot climb over just a few miles.

On my road bike, with a 42×23 low gear. Hel­lo, knee surgery.

And I cheat­ed. There’s no paved road up to the cross, and my road bike has 23mm tires, so I walked the bike up from the entrance. Still glad to know I could make it up, only stop­ping a cou­ple times to take pic­tures and look at maps to try and fig­ure out how to find the entrance.

Wooooo!