{"id":163,"date":"2019-06-24T05:18:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T05:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ride-events.co\/?p=163"},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:49:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:49:38","slug":"rbc-gran-fondo-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ride-events.co\/reviews\/2019\/06\/24\/rbc-gran-fondo-19\/","title":{"rendered":"RBC Gran Fondo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Brisk lead-out warmup from Palo Alto up into the hills. Solid, strong first climb\u2026 the mountain-goats of the group forging ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cruisy middle bumps weaving through a redwood forest. Roads quiet and smooth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The beautiful coastal loop dipped out through misty foothills west to Highway 1, then pointed back northeast toward the mountains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And back up. That meditative 10% Tunitas climb through the redwood forest was something special.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Back in town, signs for one key waypoint near the end were missing so our group went the wrong way for a few miles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Great ride, brilliant route.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Actual sleep the night before would have been nice\u2026 adrenalin and anticipation kept me up all night but for 2.5 hours <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

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    RBC hosts a fantastic ride. Big clockwise loop from Palo Alto up over the coastal range out to Highway 1, with quality time under the redwood forest canopy and some big climbs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rb","category-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ride-events.co\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ride-events.co\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ride-events.co\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ride-events.co\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ride-events.co\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ride-events.co\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":758,"href":"https:\/\/www.ride-events.co\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ride-events.co\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ride-events.co\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ride-events.co\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ride-events.co\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}