Tour de Peninsula (WeHo to Santa Monica to PV, 77 miles)
by Matthew on Apr.04, 2009, under Training Ride
I started this trip from home to the start of the training ride in Santa Monica, followed by a trip along the beach down into Palos Verdes, then a loop around the Palos Verdes Drives. There are four Palos Verdes Drives that form a loop, being named Palos Verdes Dr N(orth), Palos Verdes Dr E, Palos Verdes Dr S, and Palos Verdes Dr W. After the ride into Palos Verdes along the beach (which I have memorized at this point) and a pitstop at Malaga Cove, we travelled up and around. There was a lot of climbing, but all fairly gradual. We made our lunch pit stop over at the bottom of Hawthorne, and then finished the loop and continued back to Santa Monica. Finally I rode back home into West Hollywood.
There were definately some great views along this ride, and despite the amount of climbing, it was a fairly easy ride (just long). It’s also to be feeling confident enough to add to my training rides to make them even longer.
Tour de Peninsula (click to view details and mile markers)
