A few days ago I made a small breakfast burrito and left the house with no plan other than to start by going north and hitting a bike path. At around the 21mi mark, somehow I was in Encino, I texted Scuba to see if he wanted to go eat vegan junk food in Highland Park (past where I started) but he was jammed up with other crap (lazy) so I rode a few more miles and ate my tiny burrito and headed back towards home.

I only brought two water bottles (normally I’d have 3 or more because I love water, and for sure didn’t bring enough food or snacks. Why didn’t I stop at a store? Because I’m a dumbass. When I got to Griffith I realized my elevation gain was well under 500ft! I knew if I went home I would have gotten made fun of so I decided to climb up the backside of Griffith. I was pretty cooked at this point but instead of going home I stopped by GSC and Jimmy’s dumb ass told me I should go through Elysian instead of home. My dumb ass went with it. I had a few chances to bail out before and mid Elysian but no, I’m strong minded (dumbass) and finished the loop. Really the only reason was so my mileage would have a 7 in front of it but I have a climb of about 150ft in .2mi to get home and I don’t know what that really means really except its 3 little hills that are between 12-22 percent and it’s probably the most annoying thing to have to ride up every time.