I, Run: July 2013

[05-May-2013]

Writing this blog very late, it was in the draft list for more than a month now. Trying to write it off, as one more ride detail is following soon. This ride is the first of the Tour de Ride series, what I will call it for the weekend cycling activity, me and few friends have taken up. As we don't get all things in place, the right mindset, people, place and cycle, we don't venture out every weekend. But we try to have once in a month or every two months. We take cycling as our weekend get outs, its basically moving our butt of the bed into the wild.

Our first planned ride was from Adugodi to Kanive Mahadeshwara Temple [also known for Tattekere lake], which google maps showed to be around 35 kms distance. We started off on Sunday after the plan got dropped on Saturday. Anup, Amit and I were the guys for the party. Anup and I left around 6.30 am after Amit didn't respond to our calls. Soon got to know Amit didn't notice our calls and he left 10-15 mins after we left, he joined us for the breakfast at around 15 kms mark. After taking few pics, we were back on roads. We enquired locals about the route along the way. We rode through Bannerghatta forest area, long roads with no traffic, it was a pleasant ride. Amit took photos all along the way and captured most of the birds and forest region. We reached the temple around 10.30 am and went other side of the lake. We took some rest while Amit clicked some wonderful pics of birds around the lake. We took some time to fix one of our cycles flat tyre. There are no hotels around this place, so we had settle with banana and fruit juice. Having to deal with the hot sunny afternoon, we were actually feeling the heat of doing this ride:). But we kept our cool and managed to ride slow until we reached back to highway. Rest we stretched a bit and Amit got the bike ride from there. We did manage to ride a descent
75 kms (guess ~80 kms of cycling !! Couldn't manage to track it !!). Not bad for our first ride, enjoyed the ride completely but left with sore bums for a while :).

Cycles we rode, Anup had RockRider 5.1, Amit rode Hercules Neo and I rode LA Soverign 650b Wave.

Cycling Route

Tour de Ride Pics