The Pinglin loop from Taipei
Did another ride down to Pinglin and back yesterday, so now I've been to Pinglin on the bike twice in five days. H, X and four other friends were going all the way down to Jiaoxi because they hadn't biked there yet and they wanted to take a look at the "9 turns and 18 bends" section of Route 9. Since I had to be at the paper by 3pm, I decided to go with as far as Pinglin and then turn back from there after a cup of coffee at Vanilla Sky. D stayed home, and N called the night before to say that he had to finish an article off Sunday morning, so he had to drop out, too.
The CWB had promised thunder storms, but the weather looked good at 6am, so I met up with H and X at Linguang MRT station at 7am as agreed. We picked up the others in Muzha, and then in Shenkeng, we went up the 106A as last time. It's less steep than the 47, and the rest of the group wanted to save their strength for the 20km climb from Pinglin up to the high point of Route 9.
It turned out to be a great ride, and regardless of what the CWB said, we had a mostly sunny and cool morning with the sun weaving in and out of the clouds.
After a cappuccino and a smoked chicken sandwich at Vanilla Sky, I did the 11.5km up to Helen's Coffee at Xiaogetou in 39 minutes, and after a mango sorbet to cool myself off there, I made it back home in just below one hour for the 28 km or so from Helen's to Sogo on Zhongxiao, making it there before the thunder storm hit.
H and the others were less lucky, and in the end they spent almost two hours in a pavilion somewhere along the 9 waiting out the storm before going down to Jiaoxi for dinner and a long traffic jammed bus ride back to Taipei. Just like we did on Wednesday, however, they really enjoyed the beautiful ride from Pinglin up to the high point of the road as well as the view of the Yilan plain that suddenly opens wide after you pass the high point and begin to roll down.
I've had a couple of pretty active weeks, and have covered 450km in the two weeks up until this Sunday, which puts me just above 1300km for the year so far. A bit less than expected, but not too shabby.
Technorati tags: Taiwan, Taipei, Pinglin,biking in Taipei, biking, biking tours, cycling
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