The linked YouTube video constitutes 6 minutes of one my recent training rides on Vulture Mine Road, west of Phoenix and south of Wickenburg. The purpose of posting this video is to display the benefits of this road for cycling and training.
The vid is a bit shakey (I'm working on that). The road quality is good to excellent (in places).
The temperature was in the 100's (104 -109F most of the time). My heart rate was about 20 bpm higher than normal for that kind of effort and speed, on that kind of terrain. My plan to do 100 miles was abbreviated to 50 miles because of that. THIS is a link to the training session. (Note the reference to the `Attack of the Jumping Cholla Cactus').
At the end of the video I pull alongside a little bridge over an aqueduct that carries water from `someplace' to Phoenix. This is part of the Central Arizona Water Project. Frankly, I think it is an abomination. Although millions of people live in Phoenix it is a grim, flat, otherwise uninhabitable obscenity on the face of the earth.
Much, if not most, of Arizona is unimaginably beautiful. Not pristine, of course. Roads and infrastructure blight the land, literally everywhere. Recreational vehicles, motorcyclists and off-road vehicles swarm, make massive sound pollution. Active and abandoned mines scar the place.
Still ... this is the video.
Vulture Mine Road - 6 minutes - April 6, 2016
Hi Dan,
ReplyDeleteWhere do u park your car for this ride?
Jim
Jim ... Follow the `link' in the post for the RWGPS map. You'll see the start and end location. I park the car there. At the intersection of Vulture Mine Road and Aguila Road.
ReplyDeletethx gr8, I assume u haven't had any nasty type problems like vandalism
ReplyDeleteNot yet.
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