It would be a 60-mile day, riding along the windy, SoCal towns along the pacific coast, then looping around Palos Verdes. The ride was relatively flat except for an 8-minute, 800 foot ascent on some switchbacks to get over a big hump from the outside of the Palos Verdes peninsula back to Redondo for a coffee stop.
As Eric explained, DC's Arlington hill rides are similar: Everyone does this route a bit too often. Having never ridden the roads myself, I enjoyed them immensely, and the spectacular views off the pacific coast even more. Luckily there was no photo evidence when Eric hit the tempo on the one climb of the day.
Another nice addition is that there's a sweet bike path from Marina Del Ray to about 1/2 mile away from Eric's place. That provides pretty good access to many parts of town (you can see this in the last picture).
I'll post up pictures from the afternoon/evening of the 4th of July and our epic Monday ride up Baldy mountain later...
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