Step aside Lance, the Tour de Foothill is ours!

Now you have to admit, that unless you work for BNI (which I do), there probably isn’t a whole lotta reason to go to Upland, other than maybe the adult store located there, but we won’t go there now.

Add the Tour de Foothill to your reasons to head on over to lovely downtown Upland. This metric century is a wonderful community effort and a great little training ride. The sponsors and organizers did a fabulous job of keeping you pumped through-out the entire event. And I’m a sucker for high tech airplane-like porta-potty facilities with sinks in them.

The route boosts a decent climb (which I can’t remember at the moment), but I had not expected the ongoing false flats of 2 to 6% uphill grade. Remembering the first time Rachael and I did that on San Vincente and almost passed out the first two blocks, I smiled as we did most of our miles that way. I’m not sure how they managed it but the route back was also up grade for the most part.

I like this so much, that I plan to take my bike out to BNI (I’ll drive the 2 hours there – I’m not insane) and do the route again. I figure I can fake a work related trip by picking up some of Dr. Ivan Misner’s books for our members and then enjoy the rest of the day out there.

Also, since I do know the area and I do love a project, I’ll be organizing a pre-event dinner for next year. No reason to plan after the ride stuff, the event organizers did an amazing job on that.

Oh, and did I mention? This was my first finish line!