Hi, ho Quicksilver

I had maybe my best day of riding since I've been at it. I went out to Quicksilver by myself on Sunday morning. It was a beautiful day, and I beat a rush of bikers to the trail.

I decided I would just try to do Quicksilver as quickly as I could. I made it to the top in under 35 minutes. This excludes a ~5 minute picnic table break that, frankly, I didn't even need, but just took out of the force of habit. I was proud of 34:44 time to the top. It's almost certainly a personal best.

I completed the entire ride - Hacienda Trail to the top, down to the reservoir, back to the picnic table and back down the to Hacienda Trail head in 1:12:14 of riding time, about 1:21:03 in total. Other stats:

• 10.04 miles in total distance
  
• 8.3 mph average speed
• 25.5 mph maximum speed
• 1860 feet in total elevation gain
  

I used my small ring most of the way up, and then never went out of the middle ring from then on. In fact, I never even used the granny gear in the middle ring.

I felt great, and if I had time felt like I could have gone another round. I also needed this ride, as a few crashes and a long break were contributing to some confidence issues that I needed to just ride through, and Sunday's ride really helped with that.