Good evening all!
My day was good today. A pretty flat ride, with only one minor hill that was approx. 10 miles, but still nothing compared to Mt. Rose. Again, the sweet victory of getting to the top is riding 32 miles per hour downhill for 10 miles! The weather has still been fantastic. We've been pretty lucky going through the desert which is suppose to be so hot, and for most of the ride, I wear my windbreaker cuz the wind makes it just a touch chilly for me.
I am getting used to going to bed at 9pm to wake up at 5 or 6 for a pleasent morning ride. Usually, by the time I finally wake up, 24 miles have gone by! It is really peaceful to ride in the morning also, with little traffic, and with the cool morning air to wake up your senses. It is fun also, to just ride with others at a leisurely pace, like many of us did today. I tend to be one of the slower riders, so what is their leisurely pace is my normal pace! LOL. But, I do feel I am getting a touch stronger, and riding just a touch faster than I did maybe 9 days ago.
I've just been told by one of the fellow riders here, Norb, that when biking 6 hours, the average amount of calories burned is 3000. Another rider told me for every 20 miles riden = 1000 calories burned. Today I rode 73.5 miles, in 6.5 hours...so approx. 3000 cals were burned. Let me tell you, I had no guilt eating a cookie dough blizzard at Dairy Queen when we rode into town today!
Our way into town, we rode through Carlin Canyon, which was really gorgeous, with amazing rock formations, and it was so quiet, you only heard birds chirping!!! Such a change from my reality in NYC! We had to lift our bikes over a cement block, then cross the highway. I felt like the frog, in the old video game frogger. Good news! I didn't get hit, and I earned an extra frog!!!
For dinner, we had pasta and salad at the Red Lion Hotel next to the High Desert Inn that we are staying at. It was raining with some hail, so I found this computer to use at Starbucks. Tomorrow is day 10, and I will be doing my first century +. 107 miles is on our schedule tomorrow. Pretty much we just will be staying on I-80 til we get to Wendover, NV. It looks like we have a bit of a climb, but again, I have that downhill to look foward to which according to one of the riders is approx. 30 miles!
Its 6:44 pm right now. I think I am going to go get ready for bed! Tomorrow is going to be a long day!!! Wish me luck!!!
Adios! M
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