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Post by radical1962 on Feb 4, 2008 7:51:27 GMT 8
Inspired by Boy Siojo's planned Ultramarathon Run from Banaue to Sagada, I decided to join a group of riders that do an annual Banaue to Sagada ride. I just had to test myself on this ultimate dream ride ... do I have what it takes to finish the 70km ride? We started our adventure with a road trip to Banaue. We left Manila at around 8am Thursday and we only had a crude map to guide us ... Looking excited for the trip Lunch in San Jose Chowking We met up with other riders: David, Teddy and Master Jun somewhere in Nueva Viscaya We are here! 4pm and met up with the whole group: (top row) David, Edwin, Dickie, Master Jun, Eric, Eddie, Boyet, (bottom row), Bobet and Teddy Class Picture at the balcony of Banaue Hostel With our steeds Settling down for the night for the LOONNNGGG ride ahead The riders The rides Wake-up Coffee at 6am for the 7am take-off That's our first target, a viewdeck on top of the mountain Let's go!!! set-ups (please note that there are no hydration packs ... feeling XC talaga) David on his Elworth Moment ... ang lakas talaga!!! Eric on his Trek Carbon HT Eddie on his flyweight XTC Hardtail Dickie on his Anthem The frantic fans .... It was an exciting climb with varied terrain Gravel Icecold water on slippery gravel!!! Finally made it to Mt. Polis after 20kms of uphill climb in 2 hours The Support group It's a 20km DOWNHILL ride to Barlig from Mt. Polis ... prepare for the cold chill! Fantastic views Killer switchbacks Icecold streams in the middle of the trail Rice Terraces Sleepy Villages Fantastic Viewdeck ... we had to stop for while, we were freezing going 30-35kms downhill Me David After a long downhill to Barlig, we start a short climb and downhill to the Bontoc Pee Stop ... hey we are also human! Bontoc ... what a view of the climb ahead Lunch on Bontoc's famous Chicken Vegetable rice meal called Gayyap On the way to Sagada through a tunnel Finally reached Sagada after a vicious 10km climb for almost 2 hours. (Sorry no pics, I was too busy pedalling up!) In summary, we started at 7:30am and finished around 3:30pm pedalling from Banaue to Sagada for almost 70km. WHAT AN UNFORGETTABLE RIDE!!! Here is the GPS tracking on Google Earth Details of the data ... look at the elevation and HR On our arrival, we just rested for the night in St. Joseph's Trading jokes Had a few drinks Making sure our bikes were safe and secure Wake-up picture getting ready for the ride to Danum Lake and Besao Danum Lake Trail pics Besao Lunch at Yogurt House Echo Valley Dinner at the Log Cabin Buffet Wake-up at 4:30am for the trip home Mt. Polis stopover at around 6am Breakfast at Banaue at around 7am After this, we just fell asleep on the way home and enjoyed the drive ... no more pics until we safely arrived home at around 6pm Sunday.
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Post by Arman on Feb 4, 2008 8:24:41 GMT 8
Nice ride Sir Bobet.
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Post by BrusKO on Feb 4, 2008 8:26:43 GMT 8
330am? Wow!
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Post by xctofi on Feb 4, 2008 8:33:43 GMT 8
nice ride! kainggit! i wanna be like you guys when i grow up. so that's why Eric hasn't replied to my emails! he's busy pasarap!hehehe *sorry i had to edit a few no helmet pics
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Post by king on Feb 4, 2008 8:56:28 GMT 8
wow, tagal! the target for the ultra runners this weekend is 5am to 9pm. i hope they make the deadline.
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Post by radical1962 on Feb 4, 2008 9:06:53 GMT 8
Thanks Arman ... you will enjoy this ride. CORRECTION - 3:30pm. Sorry pagod pa rin! nice ride! kainggit! i wanna be like you guys when i grow up. so that's why Eric hasn't replied to my emails! he's busy pasarap!hehehe *sorry i had to edit a few no helmet pics You should try this ride at least once in your life. It's really an uphill classic especially for uphill addict like you. But the nice thing is that it also gives you so much of the downhill thrill going from Mt. Polis to Barlig... wow, tagal! the target for the ultra runners this weekend is 5am to 9pm. i hope they make the deadline. I hope they make it also. It's really a hard route especially with the varied terrain. We actually met the lonerider in Sagada and he was planning to ride from Sagada to Banaue to support the ultramarathoners. I was planning to do support but after this ride I think I need to recover first ...
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Post by dayuhan on Feb 4, 2008 9:50:50 GMT 8
Actually that's not Barlig at the bottom of the hill below Polis, it's Talubin. It's the junction of the road going to Barlig... and if you ever want a really serious monster climb, try riding Talubin to Barlig! Makes the Dantay-Sagada climb seem like a speed bump...
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Post by radical1962 on Feb 4, 2008 10:04:15 GMT 8
Actually that's not Barlig at the bottom of the hill below Polis, it's Talubin. It's the junction of the road going to Barlig... and if you ever want a really serious monster climb, try riding Talubin to Barlig! Makes the Dantay-Sagada climb seem like a speed bump... Hello Steve, We actually planned on calling on you in Sagada. One of the riders, David, know you and we were planning to stop by your house. Since this was planned on short notice, we were not able to contact you. We just run out of time. We did bump into the Lonerider at the log cabin and he invited us to join him ride Kiltipan. David joined him Sunday morning but we had to leave early to catch up for work on Monday morning. Next time we will contact you for a trailride. And maybe try the Talubin to Barlig ride.
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Post by g.b.b on Feb 4, 2008 10:12:10 GMT 8
hey bobet..... how much you spend for everything.... gas, food, accomodation etc etc....
if possible in details, pretty please... before i sell my trance i want to have her a sagada experience.... or better yet not sell it... hehehe
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Post by king on Feb 4, 2008 10:18:27 GMT 8
ah 330pm. ok i was wondering about that since it was a pretty strong group. i'm pretty sure the runners will make it as well. they already did 100 in manila last year, and have been training a lot. a couple of them even ran up sierra madre hotel (from mang vic's) a few weeks ago.
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Post by dayuhan on Feb 4, 2008 10:22:55 GMT 8
I heard some rumours of a group of bikers around, and saw the cars with the racks at St Josephs... we rode a bit, did some trails, too bad we couldn't link up... next time. Barlig is a possibility, or if you want to get masochistic there's another thing we've been checking out. Rode a section of it a week ago, alone, took 10 hrs to do not much more than 60km! Just really rough. Which is fun...
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Post by mountguitars on Feb 4, 2008 11:07:27 GMT 8
nice ride sir bobet. what an epic ride indeed. thanks for sharing.
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Post by radical1962 on Feb 4, 2008 11:51:12 GMT 8
hey bobet..... how much you spend for everything.... gas, food, accomodation etc etc.... if possible in details, pretty please... before i sell my trance i want to have her a sagada experience.... or better yet not sell it... hehehe Brione, I spent approximately PhP5,000 for this trip. And I rode with 3 other people sharing gas money and driver. Here are some soft breakdown: Gas - 1,500 (we had to fill up the Isuzu Crosswind Auto Diesel 3x during the trip) Driver - 650 Banaue Hostel - 300/night St. Joseph - 1,000 (it's 3,500 per night for the cottage, we stayed 2 nights) Log Cabin Buffet - 300 Lunch @ Yogurt Place - 200 The trance is perfect for the trails of Sagada and Banaue. I used my NRS for this trip since it's my first time and I wanted to be sure of finishing the climbs with a light XC mount. On hindsight, I should have brought my Trance and just used a lighter wheelset for the climbs and I would have had more fun on the downhill portions. On the other hand, there are also dangers of going too fast on the downhill portions since the switchbacks are quite treacherous. David was using his Ellsworth Moment and almost skidded off a cliff if it were not for a timely foot plant that saved him from sliding too far. Again, no matter what bike you use ... nasa indian dehins sa pana! Hope this helps.
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Post by dinoxsite on Feb 4, 2008 13:04:48 GMT 8
nice ride, Bobet!
nice pics too!
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Post by kaloi on Feb 4, 2008 13:09:05 GMT 8
hey bobet..... how much you spend for everything.... gas, food, accomodation etc etc.... if possible in details, pretty please... before i sell my trance i want to have her a sagada experience.... or better yet not sell it... hehehe Brione, I spent approximately PhP5,000 for this trip. And I rode with 3 other people sharing gas money and driver. Here are some soft breakdown: Gas - 1,500 (we had to fill up the Isuzu Crosswind Auto Diesel 3x during the trip) Driver - 650 Banaue Hostel - 300/night St. Joseph - 1,000 (it's 3,500 per night for the cottage, we stayed 2 nights) Log Cabin Buffet - 300 Lunch @ Yogurt Place - 200 The trance is perfect for the trails of Sagada and Banaue. I used my NRS for this trip since it's my first time and I wanted to be sure of finishing the climbs with a light XC mount. On hindsight, I should have brought my Trance and just used a lighter wheelset for the climbs and I would have had more fun on the downhill portions. On the other hand, there are also dangers of going too fast on the downhill portions since the switchbacks are quite treacherous. David was using his Ellsworth Moment and almost skidded off a cliff if it were not for a timely foot plant that saved him from sliding too far. Again, no matter what bike you use ... nasa indian dehins sa pana! Hope this helps. ...hmmmmmmmmmm this is workable ey! hope i could too sana this summer
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Post by xtreme on Feb 4, 2008 13:44:27 GMT 8
Nice epic ride sir! Thanks for sharing. Someday I want to have a ride there too...
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Post by NVP on Feb 4, 2008 13:47:06 GMT 8
Great epic ride Sir Bobet ... thanks for sharing nice pics
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Post by radical1962 on Feb 4, 2008 17:10:20 GMT 8
Kaloi,
I would not recommend going during summer, it will be too hot. According to the group I rode with (and some of them had been doing this for a couple of times already), it is best to do it during January to February when the weather is cool. The section from Bontoc to Sagada is usually ridden after lunch and it is just too hot climbing that section during summer.
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Post by byteblues on Feb 5, 2008 19:45:00 GMT 8
astig ...bobet try tirad pass-sagada, hardcore ... we did a trail hike .... cross the Abra but doable by bike...sometimes you'll have to carry it
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Post by seacid on Feb 6, 2008 6:40:25 GMT 8
This is the run that Bobet and King are talking about. This will happen on Feb 9. That's my wife with the white cap and that's Olive "Queen of the Mountain" ng Maarat of Team Wilke. They did a 100km run last June also for Kythe Foundation.
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Post by dayuhan on Feb 6, 2008 7:50:54 GMT 8
astig ...bobet try tirad pass-sagada, hardcore ... we did a trail hike .... cross the Abra but doable by bike...sometimes you'll have to carry it We rode from Sagada to Candon via Tirad a few years back... good time, but the east side of Tirad is in pretty bad shape. Long uphill, mostly carrying the bikes, but the DH on the west side is worth it...
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Post by dayuhan on Feb 6, 2008 7:54:41 GMT 8
Kaloi, I would not recommend going during summer, it will be too hot. According to the group I rode with (and some of them had been doing this for a couple of times already), it is best to do it during January to February when the weather is cool. The section from Bontoc to Sagada is usually ridden after lunch and it is just too hot climbing that section during summer. There's another way up to Sagada, and it's much nicer on a bike. Coming from Bontoc, you go maybe 5-6km past the usual Sagada junction and look for the road to Balili, a steep climb on the right. That road goes up and comes out on the Sagada-Suyo road, below Sumaging cave. Turn right and you're almost there. Surface is much rougher than the conventional route, but its all shaded and there's no traffic or dust. Instead of a long continuous grade it alternates between steep climb and level sections. I much prefer it to the Dantay-Sagada route.
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Post by dags on Feb 6, 2008 20:18:45 GMT 8
nice pics! whats the brand of the rear bike rack of the fortuner?
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Post by anshwa on Feb 6, 2008 23:27:56 GMT 8
Very inspiring trip!
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Post by radical1962 on Feb 7, 2008 0:00:59 GMT 8
nice pics! whats the brand of the rear bike rack of the fortuner? I think it's HOLLYWOOD brand.
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Post by dags on Feb 7, 2008 16:47:06 GMT 8
how stable is it? does it scratch your bike?
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Post by g.b.b on Feb 11, 2008 1:04:54 GMT 8
thank you sir bobet for the fast reply........
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Post by radical1962 on Feb 11, 2008 12:53:41 GMT 8
how stable is it? does it scratch your bike? It looked pretty stable since the bikes' weight were on their wheels. Scratches? I am not sure. But the retaining clamps were foam padded.
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