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The theme of the day: "Wow, never gone this fast
before!"
They warned us that today was going to be a long day, 94
miles. We took a pretty bike path to a several a long incline.
By 9AM we were had travel 20 miles since the start of the
day and still climbing. Gee... Some days 9AM would be my first meeting, but
today I was traveling from coast to coast.
The big climb was followed by a huge downhill. Whatever
speed we hit yesterday, we surpassed today. At the bottom of the downhill we
were hit by a crosswind that forced us to lean the bike just to keep
straight. Of course every downhill is followed by a uphill. The landscape
sort of looked like some areas of the California desert with high vertical
walls. The climb took a while but topped out again on a plateau with rolling
hills. The road was straight and luckily the wind was to our back.
With the combination of the winds and the hills, I broke 45
miles an hour!!! Some folks claimed 54 miles an hour!!! It was still a long
day though, by the time we hit camp we covered 94 miles.
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