Another beauty clear, sunny and mild day. Breakfast was a poor effort. Despite getting up at about 6.45am and arriving at the restaurant just after 7 (and being some of the last cyclists there!), we did not complete our medium sized choose from the menu breakfast at the coffee house in the motel carpark till about 8.20!
We finally left the motel at about 8.40am. The majority of the ride was on bike paths and flat. One or two early bumps got the heart going.
The sag stop was at about 33 miles at Folson lake, a hydro electric dam. We were in the last 20 or so to sign in. A few power bursts up the small hills strained one of my co-riders and left the other one behind.
After the sag, Mike, a tour leader, rode with me at a solid pace. A couple of long hills, with a couple of steep parts, got the heart and lungs going. Mike pulled away but I throttled back as there are 7,500ft of climbing tomorrow!
A few downhills, round town slowly and then to a bike shop. Shirts were US$60 each. Too much! A Santana tandem (very old) US$750 and a triplet (steel, no STIs) US$3,900 were on sale. Nothing else was interesting so we left.
A short ride up a few more hills and I reached the motel. Tod was already there and Loren was at the bike shop getting some bigger gears to climb the hills! (now a 28:24).
The total ride for the day was 51.7 miles in 3hrs 18m and a maximum of 32.1mph (time includes a lot of city hill climbs + lights etc to bike shop.)
Dinner at Sizzle after route maps was great – only five of us went and we had an unobstructed view of the mountains to be climbed. Service was also timely with plenty of food!
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