The World of Columbus: December 2011

This is just a half day bicycle ride and passes through Bannerghatta national park, once after taking the diversion from Kanakapura road the traffic is virtually nil. Its overall a peaceful and somewhat challenging ride (only if you set any time barrier to reach the destination).

Below is the GPX trace captured using my Garmin device, visualized using everytrail.com. Batteries on my GPS drained at the last moment when I reached Bannerghatta road, near the Zoo, so its missing the trail which is just in the city, so no need to worry anyway! Bottom picture shows the elevation profile plotted by Garmin, that looks somewhat different from the everytrial.com version..

Elevation profile from Garmin Vista Hcx

I am just documenting some of the cycle trip experiences here, let someone interested can use these in future..

Mr.Rao (GoGreen Initiator) organized a long bicycle trip after too many boring city rides. Plan is to reach Nandhi hills and comeback on the same day. We were around 70, started from Cubbon park in the early morning, and decided to take MG Road->New Airport route. Traffic was way less then expected, and the wind is neither favoring nor disturbing our ride. Reached Nandhi base around 10.30AM. Three of us myself, Praveen(the Bournvita Kid), started climbing top after having breakfast at some hotel in the downhill. Had few breaks in the middle, I never thought I would make it to the top..but together we achieved. It was really a difficult ride, this is the first day I shifted down my front gear :-) we maintained an average speed of 20Kms/Hr. Climbing down was smooth as butter, more precisely its like Rajinikanth fighting with a poor villion, so easy!! Then started the real struggle, we were already exhausted, headwinds were so heavy, many thought of jumping to an oncoming bus or an auto .. lunch was around 3PM at Bagini, on the way there was a downpour .. Really speaking physical part me had given up on that day, but the mental strength played a vital role and carried me back home..total odo reading is around 130Kms. some photos here ..