Expedition Training Ride Part 2 - Nandi Hills

Date : 19-04-2015

Kilometers Covered : 148 KM

Right after coming back from last day's ride, I quickly went to sleep to take some rest. In the evening Santhosh called me and gave me the details about the ride to Nandi Hills. It was team of five Kedar, Santhosh, Satish, Vijesh and Sunil. We also hired two MTBs Trek 3700 and Rock Rider 8.0. But last moment Kedar dropped off due to some personal reason.

At around 3.30 AM in the morning, we all started and gathered at Corporation Circle. It was dark and slightly chilled, which made us reach Nandi Foot Hill at around 8 AM. We stopped for breakfast and spent some good time recalling our last ride to Coorg. The only regret was the bad breakfast for which we paid a lot. 

On the way to Nandi Hills

On the way to Nandi Hills

Breakfast Point

It took us around one and half hour to climb Nandi Hill, covering 8 KM of curvy up hill mountain road with a few hair pin bents. 

On the way to Nandi from foot hill

On the way to Nandi from foot hill

We spent a good amount of time at the summit clicking some pictures and cracking some epic jokes. Unlike the up hill ride, the down hill ride paid us for the hard work, but it was quick and fast. It was around 11 AM, Sunil took us to his friend's resort, where we spent some time. 

Fun time at Summit

Fun time at Summit

Fun time at Summit

Fun time at Summit

Fun time at Summit

Fun time at Summit

Fun time at Summit

On the way back the sun and the radiation from the concrete took all our stamina and energy. But we kept our self hydrated  taking water time to time and lucky did not get any cramps. Many times our body tried to give up, but we were quite determined to complete. Like yesterday again I faced puncture issue, but lucky we were near to RR Cycles. It took sometime for us to change the tube and in some time we all reached home.

On the way sugar cane juice