Day 3 of camp started around 8:30am. Although we like to start/finish all of our rides at the lodge, we had our campers drive ~20 minutes north to Hotel Domestique for a more steady climb in the Watershed. Karel and I planned a route that would take our campers about 2.5 hours (including a hill time trial at the end of the ride) and followed up the ride with a 15 minute brick run. The ride included ~5400 feet of elevation gained and the run included about 500 feet.
It's a common theme that our terrain is very hilly. It's technical, punchy, rough and challenging. Greenville forces you to become a strong and skillful cyclist. However, we also have something incredible special where we live....bike-friendly roads.
As you may have noticed, we don't have shoulders where we live. While it would be a great addition to our roads, I never feel unsafe when I ride. Sure, there's always a rude driver out there but the cars literally share the road with us. It's rare for a car to honk at us out of frustration. Most of the time cars patiently sit behind us, waiting for the safest time to pass.
As I was scrolling through the pictures that Joey took, this picture (above) captured my attention for it speaks loudly about the type of roads that we ride on. While this is a very cyclist-busy road, the car provides plenty of room to pass our group. It's a pleasure to ride somewhere where you are treated with respect and not viewed as a nuisance.
We are so lucky to have so many quite, safe and beautiful roads to ride on. Even if we do a lot of climbing and our road conditions are far from ideal, I could not ask for a better place to hold a Trimarni camp than in Greenville, SC.
Despite tired legs and lots of climbing, our campers did exceptionally well managing our terrain. They applied everything that they learned over the past 2.5 days and maintained great mental toughness during the climbs and great confidence on the descends. Everyone worked well together, supporting one another so that no one was too fast or too slow.
Here are a few pictures from our Saturday ride on day three of camp.
Despite tired legs and lots of climbing, our campers did exceptionally well managing our terrain. They applied everything that they learned over the past 2.5 days and maintained great mental toughness during the climbs and great confidence on the descends. Everyone worked well together, supporting one another so that no one was too fast or too slow.
Here are a few pictures from our Saturday ride on day three of camp.
