Click here for Garmin daily ride data Note the ride data is off slightly because I had forgotten to start the watch. Missing aprox 25 miles of data. Click here for Summary Data sheet ***new*** (This is cool if you like lots of data! It may take a few seconds to load but you can hit play and time compress our ride. ) DAILY REPORT: The weather report called for another ideal biking day. Temps in the high 90's w/ lots of humidity. Tailwinds in the morning followed by head winds in the afternoon. A 40% chance of a thundershower.
We wanted to take advantage of the slight tail wind before it turned into a head wind. In the first 3 hrs we traveled over 60+ miles which gave an average speed of 20.3 mph. That is pretty good!! Shortly there after the wind shifted. Additionally the flat road turned into slight "rollers" which slowed us down. The real killer was the heat and the humidity. It really saps your strength. About twenty miles into the ride we crossed into
Kansas. For us it was very apparent; we Since we were riding 150 miles today we planned stops at 50 and 100 miles for lunch/snacks. We arrived at our first stop but Skip was not to be found. Turned out he went the wrong direction out of the hotel and was slightly delayed. (And I even called him and left a message on his phone to give him a head's up.) We stopped for lunch at the 75 mile point. By then the heat was really getting up there and the wind was now a head wind. The boys were beat. We had lunch and then just relaxed (ie cat nap). While we were there we conducted a phone interview with Mandy of the Kitsap Sun. They wanted to do a follow-up article on how we were doing on our trip. It should come out sometime this week. We are officially at the half way point and have traveled 1,967 miles!!
I took a nice cool dip in the pool to cool off. We showered and went out to eat at the Golden Coral. There was a storm front coming in and as the sun set there was a great lighting show as the storm passed by. Tomorrow we will drive to Doge City and continue our ride from there. That should get us back on schedule and line up w/ the hotel rooms Skip has already arranged. Thanks for joining us.....ride safely and keep the wind to your back!! The Riding4Hope Team (David, John, James & Skip) Signing out 7/21/09; 0030
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