{"id":298,"date":"2010-08-31T15:44:48","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T23:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/?p=298"},"modified":"2010-09-01T08:19:04","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T16:19:04","slug":"biking-up-a-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/2010\/08\/31\/biking-up-a-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Biking Up A Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"

A little over 10 years ago I planned on doing a charity bike ride for AIDS<\/a> from San Francisco to Los Angeles. I was required to raise $5k to participate and the company I was working for at the time<\/a> was supposed to match any donations I collected…but this was 2000 and that all fell apart when the Dot-com bubble popped. I had been doing some training rides though and at one point naively decided to try and bike up a fairly steep hill in Berkeley, CA (the right side of the elevation profile that appears below).<\/p>\n

On that occasion I did not make it to my destination and instead turned around and went home. Recently, I decided to gauge my hill climbing ability on a bike and decided to attack that same hill from the other direction. This is roughly the route I took (Google Maps won’t let me embed a map with biking directions):<\/p>\n