The Calhoun County Sand Hills Ride
or
The St. Matthews Ride
We start at Highway 6 and I-26.
Quickly we're on Honeysuckle which has no traffic, just corn.
Chuck ran 9 miles on Saturday and then lifted weights at the gym.
Chuck does that triathlon thing.
Thaddeus and Danny make the ride as well.
We spread just a bit here for this downhill.
But on Highway 21 it's all business and staying to the right.
You can see the correct photo above. Below are pictures that were washed out by too much light.
I didn't have the correct setting on the camera so I corrected them a bit by adding gamma and more color.
Columbia is in the distance. I hurt worse on this hill leading up to I-26 on 21 than any other.
I was engulfed with an incredible pain in my right lower back and hip. Soon it turned to heat.
I'm just taking notes.
I was feeling a little differently after having a Margarita and sharing another Saturday night.
I would feel a bit different for the rest of the day because of the alcohol.
Even a little alcohol affects my body. Often the pains I normally have are magnified after imbibing.
But there will be pain anyway.
Here we do the "Col De Sac".
Some do it twice. It may make you a better person.
Belleville Road to St. Matthews
The picture above was so bad that I just made it sepia.
Above is still incorrect and the photos below are correct.
St. Matthews
They aren't bad for "20 miles per hour" photos. Actually these were taken closer to 12, 15, or so.
Highway 6 has a few small hills.
This is the beautiful St. Matthews Lutheran Church.
Robert and Chuck
71 miles
4580 accumulative feet of climbing
The GPS says 17.5 average speed
We took it slow at times and played hard on some hills.
An interesting note only to me I suppose but
I weighed 142 Lbs. on Monday morning after the ride on Sunday.
After eating Chinese for lunch and Mexican for dinner and sherbet ice
cream I was 147 on Tuesday morning.
Back to the lifetime diet.
To the left near Sandy Run we left 176 and added 4 miles or and a couple
of hills including the "Col De Sac".
Our highest elevation according to the Garmin
GPS was 410 feet.
Our lowest seems to be about 30.
Seems odd both of these are on the same road, the loop off 176 at Sandy
Run.
This is the same loop we do for the hills.
This is the
cue sheet as it reads from Cameron.
We started today from I-26 and highway 6, exit 136 on I-26.
From downtown Cameron., SC -Main St. or BoyceLawton
Mileage Turn
00.0 Right on First
Street
0.1 Left on 33
0.4 Right on Church Camp Road
3.0 Right on Moorer
4.6 Right on Belleville
6.4 Straight across 176
6.8 Left on Sikes
10.8 Left on Highway 6 or Bridge St.
11.6 Straight across 301 (center of St. Mathews)
12.7 BP 12.8 Doodle Hill Rd.
14.5 Left on Murph Mill Road
17.8 Right on Bridal Wreath
19.2 Left on Highway 6 or Caw Caw Highway
The cue sheet would start and end today from
almost this point exactly.
We started from I-26 and rode to Honeysuckle and took the left.
That meant we came in as from above and just went on highway 6 to I-26.
19.5 Right on Honeysuckle
20.9 Left on.Stabler Farm Road
22.1 Right on Sunny Plain
20.9 Left on Wannaridge
25.6 Left on Big Beaver Creek- to shorten the ride turn
right.
27.8 Right on highway 21
31.5 I-26 Gas/Convenience store (break?)
34.2 Right on highway 176 (Old State Road)
41.1 Left on Old Belleville Road
48.1 Straight –additional miles and hills can be made to
the left on Purple Martin
52.8 Left on Bridge St. -Highway 6
61.2 Right on highway 33
65.5 Left on 176
65.8 Right on Boyce Lawton or Main St.
66.0
This mileage was taken with my car.
I'm betting that the GPS would show this ride (without the extra "hill
loop") to be 67 miles.
Riding the extra "hill loop" instead of staying on 176 adds about 4
miles.
The ride for today, 8-24-08 was 71 miles calculated by GPS.
The extra hill, plus the "Col De Sac", plus some good riders, made it a
hard day.
