Steps to Morning Success

1. Get up, make coffee.
2. Enjoy coffee, put on the bibs and jersey from your ride the evening before, take a gel.
3. Head out in the cool air and feel the warm sun.
4. Make your way to 30 via Front, celebrate the lack of headwind and soak in the grafittied boxcars bathed in the morning light. Be sure to notice the amazing backdrop of Forest Park in the background.
5. Turn left at Saltzman – the best climb up to Skyline.

6. Take off your helmet but leave on your cap.
7. Settle in.

8. Instead of stopping at Leif just remove your cap if necessary.
9. Be a little sad the climb is over when you get to the gate, re-cap/helmet yourself.

10. Bomb down Thompson, cruise down Cornell, try to not get hit by a car on Everett making your way back to SE via the Burnside Bridge.
11. When you get home finish the coffee that you put in your thermos.
12. Give thanks to Saltzman Road for the 40k before 0900.