June 13, 2007

  • Monday, June 4 - Day 2

    I love day 2.  It's a ride through the agricultural Salinas River Valley up to King City.  You start off with strawberry and lettuce fields and as you head up the valley it gradually becomes dryer and dryer and gives way to grains in the valley and grapes in the hills.  There's a place at Millers Ranch where a lot of the riders like to go
    skinny dipping but I was totally against the prospect of getting of the
    bike and lounging and then getting being wet and putting bike shorts
    back on so I didnt' stop.  The wind picks up towards the end and you get this crazy tailwind after pit 4 that's really fun.  I rode pretty hard and didn't get much wind at all because I was in pretty early.  I hung out and waited for more people to show in bike parking with Ben.