Cheese Factory Test.

With almost a month away from the ALC8 ride, the climb to the cheese Factory in Petaluma, CA is a fairly good measure of testing your preparedness and endurance! I did this ride two weeks back and I was a little humbled by the hill but finished it stong. The ride to Cheese factory is full of hill along the way and by the time I get home it is almost 85 miles!!



The Cheese factory hill is a challenging one, it’s about 1.2 miles of 8% and has several false summits. After the hill there is a 2 mile ride out to the Cheese Factory itself, an oasis with toilets, water and food that’s in the middle of no where.

Grade is a measure of how tough a climb is and I usually measured as the "rise over the run", i.e the altitude climbed over a given horizontal distance. A hill becomes very challenging as it starts to approach 12%.

The past month - I have been able to overcome bronchitis and everything related to it to feel much better about doing this ride come June!

It is now on to fundraising - what this ride is all about !!