Earlier in the day we biked on the tandem up Hobble Creek.  I was looking for more miles so I took my single bike out from the Utah condo to climb Squaw Peak.  I was curious how fast I would be able to climb compared with last year.

After making the climb I continued up the highway to Nunn’s park to get on the bike trail.  It was closed so I turned around there and headed back down the bike path.  About half way down I had to come to a stop because there was a moose right in the middle of the path.  I wish I had my camera with me.

When I got home I tried to compare my climb time up Squaw Peak with prior times but I had not done a good job of recording the previous times.  After doing some looking into my Polar HRM data, I came up with this comparision.  It turns out I did pretty good but the prior times I was not pushing as hard. I averaged only 200 watts output compared with about 275 watts on the Metcalf climb. The difference is this climb is more than twice the distance and 60% more elevation gain.

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