Wow is Mercer Island ever Hilly!
On Sunday, I decided to take a bike ride out across the I-90 bridge. It’d been a while since my last bike ride, and I’ve gone just about all the other directions but that one.
What a disappointment! Perhaps because it’d been several weeks since my last bike ride, or perhaps because it’s just much hillier than I had expected, I found myself worn out very quickly. I made it out across the bridge and up (and up and up) into some parks on the island, but by that point I was just totally out of breath and worn out from so much climbing. When I started to go down a very long (and steep) hill, I realized what a horrible pain it was going to be to bike back up this same hill when I eventually went back the other way. I turned around and headed home.
Total distance was 7.77 miles, with an appalling amount of the time spent ascending (and with my heart-rate > my 90% target the whole while)!
The map:
