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Some time ago, one of my co-workers took on a challenge and biked to the top of Mt. Hamilton. I decided that if he did it, I can do it too. I asked my friend to go there with me for a bike ride one day. That "one day" happened to be April 1, 2007. The result was a pretty steady (about 5% grade) climb for 4.5 hours on my squeaking mountain bike, and about 1 hour ride down. I had on me a Camelbak MULE with about 3lt of water, so the whole ride indeed felt more like a mule ride, not a bike ride. I can mark this challenge as done now, but since I did it in such a wrong way (heavy bike, heavy gear, etc.) that I decided to re-do it one day (maybe in few months?), but on my new road-bike instead of the MTB. Also I want to do it in a more reasonable time (2.5 -3 hours climb, and about 45 min. down.) Again plenty of room for improvement, so keep on training...
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