Total mileage today was just over 200 which felt good considering that included a mountain (can’t remember the name but still a part of the Rockies) which was 10,500 feet high. Matt still resting but hopefully he will be okay to do some of the legs tomorrow. It was nice to have him in the support vehicle cause he knew exactly where I would need water etc but I missed him massively over the course of the day.

I managed to get the first 100 miles at my desired average mph which we set at 20, in fact I was just under the 5hr mark by 10 mins which was a bit of a pb for me. After the climb and great descent I had to contend with one of the most boring bits yet. It was basically one straight road for 72 miles… I felt quite alone for the first 30 until the rv caught me up. I had gone well averaging around 25mph for this leg but slowed for the last 3 miles as I was on my last few drops of juice.. It was a hot few hours as the sun had come out after the lunchtime rain. Refulled and juiced up I ploughed on hitting over 30 on the flats (thanks to matt smuggling me a red bull!) I kept going on the same road, which I think I will need to see a therapist for complete recovery, until we eventually hit a town called juntha (or something like that). I had around 30 to go and managed to keep going until we hit our rv spot for the night. I’m just in bed now and looking forward to going through dodge city tomorrow… People at last!! Night…
Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device

This entry was posted on Monday, July 28th, 2008 at 2:01 pm and is filed under USA Coast to Coast. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.