Thursday, September 3, 2009

Amazing MTB

Well, this morning I took a bold move and went for a real MTB ride in Dongguan... we have mountains back here but it not really evident if there are tracks/road or whatsoever.. the usual situation is to take some dirt road and after 100m you meet a cluster of barking dogs guarding some farms or else...
Also the name Dongguan (world's factory city) does not really resound with ideas of dirt tracks and mountains. Mostly is a endless stretch of factories and dusty industrial towns...

So to my amazement, I really got the right way and found an amazing climb of 6,5km, mixed dirt and some concrete stretch. I guess that they will add more and more concrete on the road to make it a kind of park or else, but for the time being it is amazing. It was a good 50 minutes climb and my HR was well above 165/170bpm for most of the time... from the top, wonderful view of the surrounding mountains and all the town.
Now I am looking forward to do it again tomorrow!!...



Photo 1: view from the top
Photo 2: only in China... a cement mixer did try his way on the dirt road and end up like that...
(photos are awful quality because the phone was wet)





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