Day Sixteen – Let’s Go Boys!

Day Sixteen – Let’s Go Boys!

Elma to Castle Rock

Daily Brief

Starting fast at first on flats, we hit rolling hills, were rewarded with a 16% downgrade, and found ourselves moving faster with Bob’s sprints.

The Ride

When your body craves fuel, there is nothing like a continental breakfast (which is worth it’s weight in gold). As Bob commented, we probably ate about as much in food as what it cost us to stay there for the night, and it was true. I know I downed 6 bowls of cereal, an English muffin, a bagel, and two glasses of OJ myself, so you can imagine what all five riders did to that breakfast, decimation.

In the morning we also met Eddie. He’s an older fella who’s taking the same route as us, but he’s doing it by himself and is carrying all his stuff (no support van). We are using the same route made by the Adventure Cycling Association, or at least that’s what the map guys says. (Shaun). So far it has been good to us, today was a pretty good ride so I can’t complain.

After getting our fill at breakfast, we started burning our fuel on flats and found ourselves moving quickly. The first part of the day we were averaging about 17-18 MPH. After awhile we starting going up and down on rolling hills. These hills were fun, and with no wind, they felt good too. We would all power up the uphill and enjoy sprinting down the downhill. Speaking of downhill, we hit a trip max speed on a 16% downhill grade. Shaun clocked in at 46.3 MPH. It was to the point where pedaling wasn’t doing much even in the biggest gear.

We have been doing a decent job at staying together. Every so often we separate, especially moving uphill, but we usually wait and recollect so we aren’t too spread out. Chandler has been doing some power climbing and usually is ahead, so it’s nice of him to wait up.

Bob has inspiring the team to move a little quicker as well. Usually he’ll start sprinting ahead and shout something like “Let’s go boys!”, which he did on our last sprint into Castle Rock. Shaun will usually follow his dad when he starts bursting ahead, and the rest of us as well. I think one of these days were gonna stop talking about having quick changes for the front and just do it so we can pick up the pace. Or maybe we’ll just stay in cruise mode.

Ok, probably just cruise mode.

Daily Stats

Distance: 80.4
Time: 5:00
Avg. Speed: 16.1
Max Speed: 46.3

Total Distance: 1118.8

P & C Pushups: 155