Yesterday, my brother-in-law, a couple of friends from Quezon City and I were supposed to do a quick ride along Sta.Rosa-Silang trails (Paseo de Sta. Rosa, SouthForbes, Cardiac Hill, Bukuhan, Holy Trail, Website, Coffee and Upac). Unfortunately, our friends from Quezon City informed us at the last minute that they can’t join us because they woke up late.
If there’s one thing to bring on your ride is the tool to be able to change plan at the last minute.
In spite of this scheduled ride (it was planned the previous night), only two of us showed up but the show must go on so we decided to continue the ride.
My brother-in-law and I decided to follow the trails in Nuvali that the Men’s Health All-Terrain used.
Since we will use the Nuvali trail, we need to get permission and sign a waver from the Administrator. What’s good thing about Nuvali, is that runners and bikers are very welcome on their subdivision. They actually even allocated a path both for the runners and bikers.
All you need to present is an Identification Card (ID) and make sure that you are full-geared, most specially you are wearing your helmet when presenting yourself to the staff of the Administration.
After signing the waver and logging our name on the Biker’s Log, we were all set to go.
Below is the map of the trails.
Nuvali Men's Health All-Terrain Trail
After the surprise rampbridge (see the circle in the middle of the map), there’s another guard house (going into Montecito) where we signed another waver.
It was published that this is only a 16KM ride but my cyclocomputer registered a total of 20Km. It took us almost 3 hours to cover the whole trails because we had some long ‘water and chocolate breaks’, and picture taking too courtesy of my brother-in-law. I’ll post the pictures later. We were just familiarizing ourselves with the trails because we planned to bring some friends here and we also have some plan in the future to ride it at night.
For all bikers out there, try the new Nuvali trail NOW…Yes, now because I’m sure it will be gone into oblivion once the rain comes just like with the previous trail that was used on 2009 Nuvali Dirt Weekend race.
