New Permanent

I've been toying with an idea for a new permanent that is the upper loop of my Five Rivers 300k brevet. It starts in Seal Beach and heads up the San Gabriel Bike Path to Duarte where it turns around and heads down the Rio Hondo and Los Angeles River Trails to Long Beach. From Long Beach it uses the Long Beach Bike Path and three miles of surface roads to get back to Seal Beach.

The entire permanent has 77 miles of bike path and 4 miles of surface roads for a total of 81 miles and 1200' of climbing. It is a phenomenally fast 130km, especially in a group to counter the inevitable head winds on the way back. Iria, Amber, and I completed it on Saturday at an average speed of 16.85mph with a brutal headwind all the way back (no, we did not have a brutal tailwind on the way out).

I gathered up the paperwork and submitted it to Crista Borras of RUSA yesterday so hopefully we can ride it again in a month or so and get credit.