What a long day in the saddle. Didn’t make the time limit but I still finished and I am okay with that. Climbing through the coast range was cold! 🥶. It dropped down to 27° at one point. The high got up to 73°! Wilsonville River Road is really pretty even with a lot of traffic. Felt strong and averaged 16 mph by the time I got to Tillamook but the climbs are brutal. I even decided to ride up the 12% sustained gradient even though we were supposed to to take a different way up. 🙃 I eventually turned around and went the right way but was cooked by the time that happened. Made it to Pacific City and hung with dad for a bit. He gave me a couple sandwiches and he was out doing his ABCity stuff. With all the major climbing out of the way it was just steady sailing. Not smooth sailing because of the headwinds almost the entire way back to Forest Grove but just stayed steady. There is a 12 hour time limit and I finished in 14 hours and 20 minutes. Cooked and happy. Now sleep and kitty kisses.
UPDATE: It has come to my attention that the time limit is actually 21 hours. Success. Cowabunga, dudes!