Riding at the Coast

This year I’ve been doing some more training in the Mendocino coast hills and a little less on the flats of Davis. I have taken to the idea of riding up the mountains from the coast and heading North through the hills, then fly down to the coast. The beauty in this is that the wind is from the North so you can usually have a tailwind headed down the coast. You can see what I mean in the image below. The road from Fish Rock up to the yellow road on the left is about 5 miles or so and tops out at over 15% grade (It hurts), but then you have a quite ride north on the ridge top and spectacular views on the coast as you come South.