ST: Day 53 & 54
No miles on the bike. The past few days have been relaxing. I’ve been giving my legs and writing fingers a break as some rain passes through the area. I’ll be heading back out on the bike tommorrow.
ST: Day 52
No cycling miles today. I slept well and was up fairly early. We had watched ‘Meru’ last night, which is a climbing documentary about the first ascent of Meru in the Himalayas, which by unanimous agreement in the climbing community is the toughest climb in the world. It had been tried numerous times but had
ST: Day 51
Daily Miles: 46 Total Miles: 2823 Avg: 12.9 Max: 22.1 Time on the bike: 03:33:07 Last night got much colder than I thought it would but I still slept okay. There was ice frost on my tent and the moisture that had settled on my bike was also hard and frozen. The mountains began returning
ST: Day 50
Daily Miles: 56 Total Miles: 2777 Avg: 9.5 Max: 33.2 Time on the bike: 05:48:53 Today was hard. I was either climbing at 5 mph or zooming down the other side at 30. I was either sweating profusely trying to get to the top of the hill or freezing my butt off in the decent.
ST: Day 49
Daily Miles: 61.43 Total Miles: 2721 Avg: 12 Max: 30 Time on the bike: 05:06:12 One of the most frustrating things about camping sometimes is waking up to a soaking wet tent when it didn’t rain. This has happened the past several nights even though it’s been bone dry. The moisture in the air at
ST: Day 48
Daily Miles: 96 Total Miles: 2659 Avg: 12.6 Max: 26.7 Time on the bike: 07:35:13 I wanted to get to Globe, AZ today and I did. The fist 60 miles were really nice and went by fast, but the last 35 took just as much time to complete. I rode on Highway 70 for all
ST: Day 47
Daily Miles: 97 Total Miles: 2563 Avg: 12.2 Max: 33.6 Time on the bike: 07:51:32 I slept like a rock and was up at 5:45 AM refreshed. My headache and general un-wellness seemed to have gone away and I was happy I was feeling better. It must have been the Chinese food ‘Combo C’ that
ST: Day 46
Daily Miles: 47 Total Miles: 2467 Avg: 7.8 Max: 29.1 Time on the bike: 05:47:05 I was woken up by heavy rain on my tent in the middle of the night. I flipped on my headlamp and sat up and unzipped the rain fly a little to get a look. My breath misted outward into
ST: Day 45
Daily Miles: 89 Total Miles: 2421 Avg: 13.1 Max: 28.1 Time on the bike: 06:45:17 I got up before sunrise and was on the road by first light. The wind was supposed to be in my favor and I wanted to take advantage of it, after a disappointing and frustrating day yesterday. The farther I
ST: Day 44
Daily Miles: 55 Total Miles: 2333 Avg: 9.9 Max: 23.5 Time on the bike: 5:27:52 I’m not sure what to say about today other than that it was camplete bullshit. I slept really well and woke up refreshed. After getting my things together I walked outside to get my bike in the shed and to