{"id":92,"date":"2008-02-10T08:00:23","date_gmt":"2008-02-10T16:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/2008\/02\/sierra-road-climb"},"modified":"2008-10-03T15:40:12","modified_gmt":"2008-10-03T23:40:12","slug":"sierra-road-climb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/2008\/02\/sierra-road-climb","title":{"rendered":"Road Riding: Sierra Road -> Calaveras Road Loop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This TR was first posted to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/forums\/index.php?topic=623.msg5930;topicseen#msg5930\">the forum<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>We didn&#8217;t think that we would make the ride &#8212; we slept in too late in the morning and we are expecting guests in the afternoon. Oh, too bad, I guess we&#8217;ll just have to relax at home then.  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/forums\/Smileys\/default\/smiley.gif\" alt=\"Smiley\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At noon Catherine called and said that the kids got sick, so they couldn&#8217;t make it. There was no excuse for us no more; guess we&#8217;ll have to do it.  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/forums\/Smileys\/default\/sad.gif\" alt=\"Sad\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I got a little nervous on our way. I have read too much online about how steep the climb (Sierra Road) is. I still remember how I tipped over once in our neigherbood last year because my bike stopped moving on the uphill road and I couldn&#8217;t get my feet out.   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/forums\/Smileys\/default\/embarrassed.gif\" alt=\"Embarrassed\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We first drove over to the start of the climb (Sierra Road and Piedmont Rd). We were immediately greeted by a steep uphill. Oh boy, what are we getting ourselvels into. We parked our car at Piedmont Rd and Calaveras Rd so we could ride about 3 miles, for a warmup, to the climb. The climb only came too soon. I was glad that I didn&#8217;t tip over this time. It was 3.70 miles of uphill (on my GPS) gaining 1823 feet. Surprisingly, it felt more manageable than I had expected. There were sections where even at the lowest gear, I had to push hard on the pedals and pull hard on the handle bars to get the bike moving forward, but they were separated by sections of lesser gradients where I was able to catch my breaths and lower my heart rate.  I had 34&#8217;37&#8221; on my GPS when I reached the summit.  For that I gave myself a good pat on the back.  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/forums\/Smileys\/default\/cheesy.gif\" alt=\"Cheesy\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery\/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&amp;g2_itemId=10259&amp;g2_serialNumber=1\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nThe loop (counter clockwise). The climb starts as soon as we turn off Piedmont.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery\/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&amp;g2_itemId=10262&amp;g2_serialNumber=1\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nElevation profile for the whole loop. You won&#8217;t miss the Sierra Road climb in this profile.<\/p>\n<p><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/felixwong.com\/2006\/02\/sierra-road-milpitas-ca\/\">Felix Wong&#8217;s Blog on his Sierra Road Encounters<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chainreaction.com\/sierra_road.htm\">Chain Reaction&#8217;s account of 2006 Race on Sierra Road<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pezcyclingnews.com\/?pg=fullstory&amp;id=4721\">A <span class=\"news_headlines\">TOC PEZ <\/span>story on King of the Mountain (KOM) event<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lowkeyhillclimbs.com\/2007\/week8\/\">Another Race Report for Sierra Road Climb<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanjoseca.gov\/kingofthemountain.html\">2008 <strong>WEBCOR SAN JOSE KING-OF-THE-MOUNTAIN RIDE<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This TR was first posted to the forum. We didn&#8217;t think that we would make the ride &#8212; we slept in too late in the morning and we are expecting guests in the afternoon. Oh, too bad, I guess we&#8217;ll just have to relax at home then. At noon Catherine called and said that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-road-biking","tag-sierra-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}