Tappin the Rockies

I haven't kept up my blog up to date very well, but in my defense there always isn't Internet access. So I'm skipping a couple towns and putting in parts from various places in the last week.

Anyway Dinosaur Colorado was very interesting place. We got there early because we were racked for most of the ride because of construction. We stayed at a elementary school. Our shower situation was pretty interesting. We showered at a truck stop. I know what your thinking it must have been disgusting. I thought it would be too, however they were quite clean. But the interesting part was that these showers had two shower heads in one shower. So picture a regular shower but with two shower heads. Anyway it was made for two people to shower at the same time. It was quite interesting. Heider my brother from VT were about a half a foot away from each other.

The ride to steamboat springs was fairly simple, but my pace line including me encountered many flats throughout the 40 mile ride. The shower situation was a much better than Dinosaur. We got to the local hot springs spas to shower, but before we cleansed ourselves with soap we did it with hot relaxing natural water.

Today's ride was Breckenridge, this ride was probably the most difficult of the trip. 110 miles into the Rockies, 9,000 elevation. The pace line I was in was doing well. We were the first group into lunch at mile 70, but oddly enough we were the last group out after lunch. I have learned that you can be the fastest cyclist on the team, but if your equipment isn't working well that day, like if you encounter a couple flats you will probably finish last or close to it. It felt really good to finish the ride especially after I kept getting sharp pains in my knee, but that's nothing a bunch of Advil and an Icy Hot patch won't fix.

It's pretty weird that today is July 4th. It certainly doesn't feel like it. After we ate dinner some of the cyclist went out to see the town, which was probably a bad choice because the walk was so long and lodging is up on top of a big hill. Needless to say I am exhausted writing this blog, but my mommy wanted me to update it. I'm going to bed. Got to get up early to hit up Loveland Pass tomorrow: 12000 ft elevation.