June 10, 2013
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Monday, June 3, 2013
I slept well Sunday night and was ready to ride first thing Monday. Here are all the bike ready to go:
The view from the front of the line as we’re waiting to go:
We had a new route out of Santa Cruz which was a little hillier than last year but much prettier so I approved. I got a little lost but managed to get it together and was back on the route by rest stop 1. I skipped lunch as I always do and headed up the pretty Salinas Valley. Where we had headwinds. And I should have known about them because Christ Thomas had told me about them in the morning but I told him that he was crazy despite the fact that he’s 1) smarter than me and 2) was holding a weather forecast. So we had headwinds. I hadn’t eaten enough at rest stop 2 for that and I showed up at rest stop 3 starving which is not a good thing. Next year I’m gonna have to work another stop into day 2. They looked at my bike at rest stop 3 and told me that I needed a new bottom bracket when I got into camp. Headwinds diminished the farther up the valley we got and it was pretty good riding towards the end. Here I am towards the end of the day:
I was the third rider in at about 1:50. I got cleaned up and got some food and hung out the rest of the day.
Here are Wanderson and Colleen at dinner:
I went to go pick up my bike at the end of the day and they didn’t charge me for the new parts or the labor which was really generous. I love bike tech. I tried, but I couldn’t even stay up until 8PM. I went to bed and slept like a baby. Fabulous day.
Bike Mileage:
Today 109.2 Week to date 109.2 Month to date 198.0 Year to date 4,160.4 To Goal 3,839.6 Over (Under) plan 719.3 YTD Mileage vs Last Year (161.0) Rolling Year 8,481.8 Since Inception 10/1/07 44,628.1
