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I don’t usually like to toot my own horn, but after this past week, I will.

Last Sunday I rode around West Maui – 60 miles of up and down on roads carved into the  side of mountains – about 4000 feet of climbing.  I’ve done it before, but it was fun to do again.  Here are a couple of pics to show what it is like on the back side of West Maui.

This is “the Wall”.  18% grade.  When I looked down at my computer, I was moving at 5.2 mph.

This is typical of the back side of West Maui:

Monday, I did a loosen-up ride of 31 up the west coast of Maui.  Relatively flat – felt good.

Tuesday, the third time was a charm.  4 hours and 26 minutes to climb from the beach to the top of Mt. Haleakala – 10, 023 feet in 38 miles.  What a butt kicker!!

It took 1 hour and 25 minutes to come down and I could have easily shaved 15 minutes off that if I hadn’t had to slow down so often for car traffic.

I took Wednesday off to do a snorkel trip with my lovely and vivacious wife Jenny and Thursday I rode 60 around West Maui again.  Once we arrived back in Dallas Friday, I did another 30 mile loosen-up ride before heading to Wichita Falls for the Hotter ‘N Hell 100.

The Hotter ‘N Hell 100 – what a gas!  I took 8th place in the Cat 4 100 mile race (3rd in the field sprint)!!  Did I feel great!

Overall, it added up to 359 miles, 230 of which were spent in tropical Hawaii with my lovely wife Jenny.  Throw in the successful ascent of Haleakala and an 8th in the HHH – what could be better!