Tha, tha, that's all folks! No more hills for many days.
Beautiful ride through Black Hills - rolling, plains and Ponderosa Forest. Distant views to the plains - and fast swooping downhills to those plains. Not a hill in sight to the east.
Tomorrow starts the long, hot, cloudless march east.
With predicted east winds. Aaaaaaaagh!
Didn't get much of a picture of buffalo, but they were cute. Mom buffalo gave me a snort, loosely interpreted as: "Back off, Dude, you're in the wrong gear for a sprint". We've been reduced to washing in the fountain outside a "Sonic" drive-in!
5.5 hr in saddle, 122 km (75 miles) , 13.5 MPH av power 141 heart rate 90.
Keep sending pictures of mountains! But the Midwest isn't without hills--I had engine troubles driving across Iowa years ago and crawled up all the hills! Enjoy those headwinds!
ReplyDeleteHi Rick, sounds like you're having some great rides. You did miss the Mt. Evans Hill Climb yesterday, as did I. Some out of state/country guy in the 55+ age group beat Wayne Watson by over 14 minutes with a time under 1:55. Take care and stay safe---Ed Greivel
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like the heat or winds are making you hallucinate the buffalo are speaking to you. :-) Hope you are having fun. Sounds like you kicked Nate's butt today (from his Tweet). We tried to give Emily some road rash today by sending her over a small waterfall in an inner tube. She flipped (her tube) in the deeper area, then dragged her knees along the river rocks as it got shallower. Ouch! She is none the worse for it, though. When she complains, we just show her pictures of you in the hospital. We are trying to figure out a way to catch up with you, but you seem to be riding too fast. I will give you a call tomorrow and see if we can make our paths cross. Hugs.
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