Shankarpalli is one of the developing towns in AP. A place full of green trees and nice climate. On the occasion of Diwali, I decided to ride with Hyderabad Bicycling Club this time to my second long ride to Shankarpalli which is ~ 40 k.m. away from my home. So we would be covering ~ 80 k.m. in total. Lot of riders who RSVP'ed didn't came for the ride. Finally 5 riders started early morning from Gachibowli for this ride. When I was checking the route, I thought that it will only contain inclines of Microsoft, Movie Towers which I have done lot of time now and will be able to do it but who knew the whole route contained ups and downs making the ride bit tougher but the roads were awesome. Although because of rains there were bad patches on the road but overall a nice riding experience.
On the way, the roads seems to never end which makes riding difficult as you start feeling that distance is longer. A road full of trees on both sides, less traffic, cool weather which slowly became hot on the way back. After reaching Shankarpalli, we stopped at a place to eat Hot Idly Sambar, and we started back. Riding on return was much more difficult as we have lot most of the energy, the roads had more inclines and it was a tiring journey. I took rest after ~ 20 k.m. ride while return and finished off whatever I took for ride snacks.
Finally on climbing the movie towers hills which took long time as I was returning with no energy left, this view was simply awesome and soothing to eyes. And soon after going downhill I reached ORR and felt that my home is pretty close now.
And here comes the last patch of my ride and the most difficult one (Microsoft Hill) which seemed like a monster at that time with ~ 1.7 k.m. inclined surface and almost no energy left by that time. I have to take couple of stops to reach at the top and their is no workaround for this hill to reach my home. After this big climb, I stopped at DLF to have "Banana Milk Shake" which was truly refreshing and started again to reach home. I finished my ride in 3 hours and 45 min. The ride was so tiring that I was not even able to sleep the whole day :D
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