Today we ended the day riding 68 miles. We stopped in Carson City, and then we drove to Lake Tahoe! Mike Hooban rode with us in the morning and meet up us at lake tahoe. We thank the Hooban family and friends for renting us a condo. We took a nice break and taking the day off tomorrow and enjoy the Lake!
We had a late start, we were riding to Carson City, which was only 70 miles away. We took our time getting up, have a good breakfast and took our times leaving. We left after 10, but it was hot, very hot, already felt like it was in the 100s. The high it got in the afternoon, reached 105. Also the wind started to get worse, the wind gust picked up and reached 20 mph. We thank Mike Hooban for the hotel room.
After a sunny, hot day going through Nevada, the weather people were saying that it was going to be record temperatures, it hit 103 yesterday, it felt like 110. We starts really early, at 7 and finished 114 miles. We finished at 230. If we didn't stop, we did it in 6 and a half hours. It's our fastest we ever done and also the most we have ever done. The road smooth for the most part, but had hills every 8 to 10 miles. We thank Mike Hooban for the hotel room, he also meet up with us at the end and rode to the hotel room. Tomorrow we ride to Lake Tahoe!
We started the day early at 7, our goal was trying to reach Fallon. We camped at a church in Austin, Nevada. The weather was supposed to get hot and hit the 100s. We meet a group going from west to east, the group was named race against aids, they were funding raising and stopped towns to talk about Aids. We are trying to hit our last century before we hit lake tahoe. Today we will see how fast we get to our century.
Adjustment day
No riding today. In order to stay on schedule and accept the generous offer of the Hooban family and friends at Lake Tahoe, day 31 we will be driving into Nevada.
One week left!! Thanks for all your support!!
Biking for Phil Keating team.
After a hot sunny day in the start of Utah, we accomplished to cover 83 miles. There were a lot of hills and climbing them were tough. Also there were no towns close by, if we go to one town, the next on was in another 100 miles, it was hard. After we finished biking, we put the bikes on the back of the car and drove to torrey and we are spending the night here!
A hot, sunny day in Utah, the weather was going to be sunny with a high of 95, but it felt like it was 100. There was alot of small hills to climb, some were major. We covered 52 miles in the morning till lunch. It was hard to find a place to stop and relax. The town's were spread apart, in 100 mile radius. So we just stopped, good thing we had a canopy and tarp, and made our own shade and relaxed.
To start the fifth week, it was a cold morning in Rico, Colorado,, hitting the low 40s. We left late again, around 9. It was a good morning, covered 56 miles, stopped in Lewis, Colorado for lunch. It was a easy morning, all downhill. We reached Utah today, at 6. It took us 5 days to reach Utah. The Rockies are over, no more mountains. We stopped in Monticello, Colorado for the night we almost hit another centry, just a couple miles shy. We are 9 days away from San Fransico. We have rode a total of 2800 miles. We are making great progress. We would like to stop at Lake Tahoe. We will see!
After a late start today, we had a slow day, we covered 70 miles today, made it to Rico. We are done with the Rockies. We are only 60 miles away from Utah, we will be there tomorrow after lunch. We enjoyed our time in Telluride, went up the gondola, hiked a bit, took a small tour of the town and had a good lunch. Tomorrow Utah, and we are 10 days away from San Fransico.
We stopped in telluride for lunch and also to take in the nice scenery. It's a beautiful place to visit.
With our late start, we covers 40 miles in four hours, including a couple of mountains. We stopped at Telluride, Colorado for lunch and took a little tour of the place before we left.
After going through monarchs pass yesterday, we climb the tallest mountain on this trip. Today we went over a few mountains, about over 8000 feet. The weather was nice, not so windy and almost completed a century. We covered 92 miles today. We stopped in ridge way for the night, before we have to climb more mountains. We are 140 moles away from Utah and we are 11 days till we complete our trip across the country! Colorado has been the most beautiful state so far on this trip. The forest fire has dyed down a bit and we have been lucky with the weather!
Today we had an easy day in the morning, we went through Salida, it's a nice town and a lot of people bike, stopped at a small cafe, where usually most cyclist come too. After Salida, the start Monarch Mountain climb began, it was 25 miles of going to the sumit, which was 11312 feet. When we reached the top, we stopped for a bit to enjoy the view of the mountains, then decented down to sargent for lunch. We 55 miles in the morning till lunch. After that, we continued on for another 32 miles, and we stopped in Gunnison for the night. Again the weather was better than yesterday, there was no smoke from the forest fires, but the wind was gusting in the 20 mph, which slowed us down. Hope the wind calms down tomorrow. We are 180 miles away from the border of Colorado/Utah, we should be there in a couple days.
Today we hit the Rocky Mountains, the first hill was just brutal. After we left pueblo, it was smooth road for the first 25 miles until we hit Wetmore. After Wetmore it was straight climbing for 20 miles, it was a killer, but got through it. At the end, it was a nice journey to Silver Cliff, were we stopped for lunch and then continued and ended the day at Coaldale. We covered 83 miles today, which was a good start in the Rockies. We have 300 miles left till we hit the Colorado/Utah border. Since there was wildfires in northern Colorado, we got the smoke moving towards the south and continues to New Mexico. It was hard to breath at some point, plus the wind was another factor, but a great day today!
After lunch, we needed only 16 Mike's to complete our century, but we didn't. We covered a total of 93 miles today. The wind was not getting any better, plus the sun was hot and the air was dry, we were dehydrated pretty quick. We heard there was bad weather in Colorado, they been having wildfires and tornados, but that should be all over and should not reach South Colorado. Tomorrow we hit the Rocky Mountains. We are looking forward to it!
We left Sheridan Lake early so we dont have to battle the wind in the morning. But when we reached Eads, Colorado, the wind started to pick up and started gusting about 20 mph and it was head on, it was hard battling the wind and biking. We managed to cover 84 miles in the morning, the town's were far from each other. We stopped at Sugar City for lunch!
After battling winds, gusting between 20-30 mph, we managed to cover another century. We rode today 102 miles. It's our fourth century in a row and total of seven centuries on this trip so far. We made it to Colorado after traveling 85 miles from dighton. We gained an hour, so we are in mountain time now. We stopped 15 miles in the state in a very small town called Sheridan Lake. A population of less than 100, there was a church that takes in cyclists. Tomorrow we head to Pueblo and take rest there. After that we battle the Rocky Mountains. Looking forward to it!
We start out the morning leaving dighton. It was very windy while riding today so far. The wind was blowing between 20-30 mph. This is the first time we felt the wind this strong in Kansas. We are getting close to the border of Colorado. We stopped for lunch in Tribune, the last big town before the border. We are going to hit our fourth century in a row!
We start of the fourth week strong, covered 115 miles today, we were flying on the flat, straight road. We started out in Seward and ended today in Dighton, Kansas. We are less than 90 miles away from the border of Kansas/Colorado. In the morning till lunch, we did 71 miles and we stopped in Bazine, there was a nice hostel for cyclists. We stayed in a hotel in Dighton, good rooms and cheap. Tomorrow we ride towards Colorado and we are getting close to Pueblo, were we change to the Western Express Trail!
Today turned out to be a complicated day, in the first 20 miles, it started to rain and we had to stop for a bit. Second, smith had a flat tire, we had to go get that fixed in Newton, Kansas. There's a great bike shop in newton and a hostel as well. Third, Luis spokes broke, he had to go get new ones. At the end of the day we completed our sixth century, and we finished strong to end our third week. We rode a total of 2000 miles and we are getting close to our goal. We are half way there to San Francisco. After Kansas, we have the Rocky Mountains to conquer. We hope we don't get any more bike problems and finish on time. Tomorrow we start our fourth week and we head to Colorado in a couple days!
