hill you kill you (minor)

(i wish bikely wasn't so worthless. i don't like mapmyride but ferchrissakes bikely won't even load!)

anyhow, i did a hilly ride today. from bay tree park up parrot, down de anza, up polhemus, down ralston av, up alameda, then back down parrot to the park.

mmr says that's just under 11 miles and claims i did 790 feet of climb, proving that mmr doesn't know wtf it's talking about.

as i was coming down alameda i realized that to make this ride into HYKY (major) i could go up hillsdale (ow!!) then down/up de anza (it's got a nice 10% climb for a quarter mile or so) and return to the park via crystal springs and the obstacle course.

that sounds like a plan for next week.

if i wanted to really HYKY, once i finished de anza i could climb bunker hill, and then... what? thanks to bridge construction, the easy route home is blocked until 2013, so that'd mean more climb to get to cañada, and then i guess up the ralston trail and back down polhemus/crystal springs/obstacle course -- or, of course, ascension back to parrot.

that's a hell of a lot more than 800 feet of climb.

the possibilities for torture are pretty near endless.