Getting into a paceline....Last nights sleep was a workout in itself. All of us had tented on a hill, the entire school was built at the top of a steep hill. At times I hung on to my hockey back so I wouldn't continue to slide off my air mattress.
Craig Colorado to Kremmling
CLIMB: up Rabbit’s Ears Pass- over 4000 feet of climbing today…and more to come by weeks end.
Perceived Exertion: A LOT…let’s see, I drank over 6 bottles of water…nearing on the edge of 8…and didn’t use ‘facilities’ until in camp at the end of the day.
HAPPY FACTOR : great…
Today’s ride was a long ride. Almost 7 hours on my bike makes for a tired me. The wind was against us when we started our ride in and we formed a pace line as per usual. The police were also on our case for they were not told by their “higher up” officials that we would be on the highway. They were out, and were willing to give tickets to those who crossed over the white lines. Quite hard not to, with a huge rumble strip…and a lot of debris to the right of it, including hay, glass, rubble, gravel, and many other items of debris, making it sketchy to ride to the right of the rumble strip at times, thereby leaving you about 6 inches between the rumble and the white line. We made do, and no one on tour received a ticket. There were many times though, that the rode had given way and there was no white line, as well, no shoulder to ride on, causing some angry motorists (mostly truckers) and they would blare there horns at us, but we would have no where to go, for there was no shoulder, just a gravel side, and moreover some drop-offs.
The first leg of the ride went well, although the pace line was accordion like at times….speed up, slow down, coast, brake, speed up…and it is not a conducive cycling way. We stopped in a little town of Hayden and had a snack and then continued out into the wind along the highway. The fist SAG was Corey, and he really does enjoy when we come by. I call him crazy and he calls me lucky…or vice versa. Good camaraderie here amongst the people.
Jeff, Jonathan, Annette, Kaitlyn and I stopped in Steamboat Springs, to eat our lunch and think about the rest of the day. See we were just on the edge of starting our climb to the summit of Rabbit’s Ears Pass. The climb was not too long, but it did require much perseverance, I managed to continue at a lovely high rate of 8-11km/hr and sometimes faster. In all it took and hour and a half (at that rate) to reach the summit. This is how riding can get long…you can’t go any faster…cause your legs just can’t pump any more.
Craig Colorado to Kremmling
CLIMB: up Rabbit’s Ears Pass- over 4000 feet of climbing today…and more to come by weeks end.
Perceived Exertion: A LOT…let’s see, I drank over 6 bottles of water…nearing on the edge of 8…and didn’t use ‘facilities’ until in camp at the end of the day.
HAPPY FACTOR : great…
Today’s ride was a long ride. Almost 7 hours on my bike makes for a tired me. The wind was against us when we started our ride in and we formed a pace line as per usual. The police were also on our case for they were not told by their “higher up” officials that we would be on the highway. They were out, and were willing to give tickets to those who crossed over the white lines. Quite hard not to, with a huge rumble strip…and a lot of debris to the right of it, including hay, glass, rubble, gravel, and many other items of debris, making it sketchy to ride to the right of the rumble strip at times, thereby leaving you about 6 inches between the rumble and the white line. We made do, and no one on tour received a ticket. There were many times though, that the rode had given way and there was no white line, as well, no shoulder to ride on, causing some angry motorists (mostly truckers) and they would blare there horns at us, but we would have no where to go, for there was no shoulder, just a gravel side, and moreover some drop-offs.
The first leg of the ride went well, although the pace line was accordion like at times….speed up, slow down, coast, brake, speed up…and it is not a conducive cycling way. We stopped in a little town of Hayden and had a snack and then continued out into the wind along the highway. The fist SAG was Corey, and he really does enjoy when we come by. I call him crazy and he calls me lucky…or vice versa. Good camaraderie here amongst the people.
Jeff, Jonathan, Annette, Kaitlyn and I stopped in Steamboat Springs, to eat our lunch and think about the rest of the day. See we were just on the edge of starting our climb to the summit of Rabbit’s Ears Pass. The climb was not too long, but it did require much perseverance, I managed to continue at a lovely high rate of 8-11km/hr and sometimes faster. In all it took and hour and a half (at that rate) to reach the summit. This is how riding can get long…you can’t go any faster…cause your legs just can’t pump any more.
We reached the summit, had a drink break, and then continued to find these ‘rabbit ears’ that were an outcropping of rocks over yonder on the top of another mountain. Took a moment there to take a photo and continue on our way. We came to the real summit a couple of km later, and took a photo at the sign that says the footage and the continental divide line. We are now in the run off water towards the Atlantic….no longer the Pacific.
By the time we got to Walter’s I was just about done. We still had another 25 k to go of rolling hills.
I really enjoyed the last 10k for they were good rolling hills, whereby I booted down the hill and coasted up the next. Annette and I got to town and headed straight into towards the school and set up our tents as well as Theresa’s.
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