Two years have passed, and I am not the weak chicken at the beginning.

I still remember the first time I went to the watershed, I was still very ignorant. Although I have had cycling experience occasionally before, I have only had one long-distance experience, that is, riding 400 kilometers to and from the old county during the National Day holiday, which is nothing more than commuting.

In my mind, it was a weekend in early autumn. Several colleagues met for an outing, and went south from Xi 'an No.1 Road to the foot of Qinling Mountain along G2 10 National Road, only to see a large group of cyclists gathered at the wind and rain mouth, and all kinds of bicycles were overwhelmed. I didn't know I was here to challenge the watershed until I asked. At that time, I didn't know the significance of riding the watershed, but it must be interesting to guess where so many people went. Our small team has no purpose, so after a little discussion, we decided to follow the big army and find out.

At that time, I only had a mountain car assembled by myself, and most of my other friends were cars of similar grade, but my female colleague's car was a giant old scooter with full steel frame, and she was not a regular exerciser. Obviously, it is whimsical for her to ride it. We started to use the cart before 1 km, and gave up after about 3 km. As we all know, we are still far from the finish line.

So, my first trip to the watershed began and ended inexplicably.

After coming back, I have been obsessed with that place, and I really want to know how charming this route is, attracting so many riders to go there. Only after checking online did I know that this place is so famous that it is called the only route for Shaanxi cyclists to take a driver's license test. The reason is that it is too difficult. To what extent? You can look at this altitude map.

The total length of the route is about 33km, with the lowest elevation at Fengyukou 43 1 m and the highest watershed of 2024m. The end point is G 265,438+00 National Road, which crosses the highest point of Qinling Mountains, with an overall elevation of about 65,438+0,600 meters. If you have no idea about these data, then everyone has generally heard of the Tour de France. The climbing track of the Tour de France is divided into the following difficulty levels:

Traveler APP specially invited experts from the A.S.O track to grade the slope of the watershed climbing stage. French track experts gave a clear definition of the difficulty of the watershed climbing stage: HC level! This is the highest difficulty level. At present, the fastest record among the open players in this section is 1 hour 34 minutes.

Knowing the situation, I never forgot it again. I felt that I would become a cyclist without going once, so I made an appointment with another colleague, LC, to really challenge once, and the time was set at 20 15 New Year's Day holiday.

LC is an athlete of the company. At that time, she was an excellent singer, but she became an English translator. Once, I rode together for more than 180KM a day, immediately played a football match, and then went to drink and sing all night, which was regarded as superman by me. Singing skills are absolutely first-class among the public players, and they are good at high-pitched rock songs. Love after Death was once a must for KTV. It seems that these talents are related to his ethnic origin. But in recent years, my body and throat have been hollowed out by alcohol and tobacco, and I have gone downhill. At that time, I was just a little fat man who had just lost weight and had good endurance.

Sure enough, I have been working hard, especially in the last 4 kilometers, and I need to stop and have a rest almost every 10 minute. LC rode a BMX and accompanied me to the top with ease and freehand brushwork. He is not a level player at all. Now that I think about it, he should have been bored. Although the process was very abusive, at least I went up and didn't leave a step. Anyway, I got my driver's license and went home happily.

It has been more than two years since the last exam. I have been insisting on running and fitness for the past two years. My physique has made great progress than before, but my bike has been abandoned a lot. The newly bought road bike is estimated to have a journey of only 500KM, and most of the time it has become an ornament on the wall. From time to time, I will think of my sense of accomplishment when I set foot on the watershed, and wonder whether I should take the waterway again in the near future. One is not to forget the feeling of riding, and the other is to test how much the improvement of physical fitness will affect the riding level.

As early as September, I began to plan a watershed trip with my friend Master Wang. In desperation, I had to prepare for North Malaysia and devote myself to running training. Since then, it has been raining in Xi for the whole month of 65438+ 10. Finally, the weather at the beginning of 165438+ 10 was determined, and the mountain was set at165438+10.5.

10-20 degrees cloudy, which is a good weather for mountain climbing. Start at the foot of 10.

This time, my hardware and software have been greatly upgraded. My car is a road bike with carbon frame and carbon knife assembled by a treasure (yes, I just like to take a treasure route, even my home decoration materials are a treasure), and I also carry a water bag with two bottles of Gatorade.

Take a 5-minute break every half hour, eat a Snickers every hour 10 minute, and make steady progress. Master Wang recently lacked training and was obviously a little tired in the second half, so this time I'll watch others.

It's almost the henhouse. After a long rest, the last and most difficult distance is 5 kilometers. In order to test my ability, I shamelessly left my partner and climbed up at my pace. In the end, the 5 km took 40 minutes and the results were gratifying. The point is, after I reached the top, I still felt I had room.

Line up at the stone tablet to take pictures, and then wait for Master Wang to make a slight adjustment and start going down the mountain.

This road bike should be less than 10 kg, which is much lighter than mountain bike. This time * * * took 3 hours 15 points, and my performance has made a qualitative leap compared with that of that year, especially the growth of physical fitness has been verified in the steepest section, but it should not be my best performance.

Relatively speaking, the road bike on this slope is lighter and faster than the mountain bike, but it is very painful when going down the mountain. I have been riding in front of the center of gravity for a long time, and my neck hurts. The high-speed vibration when crossing the speed bump also made my hands ache and I couldn't hold the handlebar. I think mountain bikes are still very comfortable when going downhill.

Now I am planning a real performance test next month to confirm what level I can reach at the earliest. Of course, compared with the great gods at the top of the pyramid, my gap is not a little bit.