At one of our rest stops we celebrated the completion of our 1,000th mile. Note my EDA jersey I wore today. We finished our ride around 3pm, allowing us to get back to the hotel and have a couple extra hours of rest. Tomorrow we head to Dalhart, Texas. This will be one of our shortest rides of the tour at 95 miles.
April 27, 2010 - Tour
Today we rode 110 miles from Las Vegas, New Mexico to Tucumcari, New Mexico. It was 37 degrees when we started, but reached 70 by the finish. The course had some downhill portions, but had a lot of climbing over the first 40 miles. When I took off from Las Vegas I was surprised to find myself in what appeared to be cattle ranches, but didn't see many cows. There were huge fenced in ranches that went on forever. The first 49 miles were quiet, we were on backroads for a change. It finally warmed up some, then a strong head-wind developed for the remainder of the ride, making it difficult to average more than 15 mph, even with the downhill portions. We had 3 significant climbs in the latter half of the ride, in the 8 to 10 degree range, that's like a roof slopes, very challenging, each exceeding 3/4 of a mile. 
At one of our rest stops we celebrated the completion of our 1,000th mile. Note my EDA jersey I wore today. We finished our ride around 3pm, allowing us to get back to the hotel and have a couple extra hours of rest. Tomorrow we head to Dalhart, Texas. This will be one of our shortest rides of the tour at 95 miles.
At one of our rest stops we celebrated the completion of our 1,000th mile. Note my EDA jersey I wore today. We finished our ride around 3pm, allowing us to get back to the hotel and have a couple extra hours of rest. Tomorrow we head to Dalhart, Texas. This will be one of our shortest rides of the tour at 95 miles.