MC's Cycling Diary

Date: 30 June 2018 Total distance: 614 Kilometers Start Time: 4:00 pm 30 June 2018 Return Time: 4:35 am 2 July 2018 With: Raghunandan Nagaraja Altitude Profile: Trichy - Thanjavur - Pudukottai - Karaikudi - Thondi - Ramanathapuram - Rameshwaram - Dhanushkodi - Rameshwaram - Ramanathapuram - Thondi - Karaikudi - Pudukottai - Trichy Got to know about this ride much before it was open for registration and had decided to ride it. The only constraint was that it was too close to the Gates of Heaven ride and was worried if 2 weeks will be sufficient to recover from this ride and be ready for the Gates of Heaven ride. Only way to know is to ride it and see if I am able to recover. I did wait till the last minute to register as I was not sure on the work front and also had plans to cover Thanjavur as part of this ride. However, I had to give up on the Thanjavur plan and also the plan to ride to the start point from Bangalore as I did not want to re...

Date: 22 June 2018 - 24 June 2018 Total distance: 625 Kilometers Start Time: 6:45 am 22 June 2018 Return Time: 8:30 am 24 June 2018 With: Amar Chand, Lokesh Jain, Rajusundharam, Prasad S, Siddalinga Swamy - from Pollachi Altitude Profile: Koramangala - Salem - Yercaud - Tiruppur - Pollachi - Aliyar - Pollachi - Coimbatore - Coonoor The weekend was free, I managed to add Friday to the weekend as I was able to put in some additional hours on the other days. The initial plan was to take a bus to Coimbatore and ride to Valparai, Ooty and Coorg. However, as I was able to add Friday to the ride days, I decided to ride to Coimbatore instead of taking the bus. The plan was to ride to Yercaud, then ride through the night to make it to Pollachi in the morning where I would join the others and continue the ride. It was a busy week, I was tired and went to bed late on Thursday. I set the alarm for 4:30 am, which I missed and by the time I woke up I had missed t...