Quick ride...

Does everyone have a reliable stand-by ride that they can do when short on time? The type of route you know like the back of your hand, close to home, perhaps varied terrain, just enough to get a good amount of training done in an hour or so. This is mine; it is about an 11 mile loop, if you can call it a loop ( I used to call it a modified figure-eight, but now that I see it drawn out it doesn't even look like that), but at any point along the route I am never more than 3 miles from home. No major hills, but a lot of gradual climbing and descending. Relatively scenic. Excepting the stretch along Foothill Blvd it is all through residential areas. In fact it suffices as a passable tour of north Claremont, passing by the Colleges, Bernard Field Station, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Claremont High School, Thompson Creek Trail, Claremont Hills Wilderness Park, and numerous other city parks.

Heading north on Mills with Sunset Peak in the backgound

Mt. Baldy Road

South on Padua Avenue

South on Indian Hill Blvd.

South on Mills. Bernard Field Station along the right.

West on Foothill. Weird, the lack of traffic.

Claremont School of Theology on Foothill

There's Dale and Sam at the Velo, on Foothill. Can't seem to take photos to the side while moving.

North on Indian Hill

East on Baseline with one of the rock houses on the right.

Just realized, after looking at the photos one might get the impression that this area of Claremont is virtually car free. Granted it is not downtown 'Bigsburg', but... all in the timing I guess.