Sunday 27th June 1999 ->Lamar CO

The longest day started with breakfast at 5-30am. By 6am, I was on the road after an adequate breakfast.

It was again a clear sky, sunny and warm. The wind early on picked its direction – cross then head all the way. It was at least 10-20kmh^-1 in strength.

We rolled through plains with nothing of real interest. Just after the 2^nd sag at 62 miles, my back tyre deflated. I fixed that and it went down again. Fixed that and about 10 miles further, down again! At this time, Mike the mechanic caught up and we then rode in a paceline with Dan and Helen. Further on, Andy joined in for about a mile and then Maria jumped in. After some hard riding, Dan and Helen, who started with Mike, fell off at about the 80-90 mile mark. Maria lasted till about 95 miles.

After the 3^rd sag, my back tyre was again flat. Another 10 miles of pacelining with Mike and I had flat #5 for the day! Rim tape says Mike – all faulty! From there, we made it to town at 2pm,again too early for rooms, so cruised into town for a very leisurely KFC with 3 or 4 drinks!

The total ride for the day, mostly into wind, was 127.3 miles (204.9km!) in 6hrs 59m with a max of 33.7mph. To town average 18.4mph (29.6kmh^-1).

At the end of another week’s riding, I’ve double the number of flats to 19! Total riding for the week was 829km (515.2 miles) in 29hrs 09m with a maximum speed of 72.2kmh^-1 (44.9mph) with an average of 17.67mph (28.4kmh^-1). Again a Jason record!

Dinner was a buffer in the hotel – a very mediocre offering of salad, pasta, mince and sauce with bread.