Montag, 22. August 2011

Day 25 - 196 kk


When I got up at 5:30 and realized that it was raining, I was almost sure this was not going to be an easy day. And it was not. From the beginning, we were in the steep hills of the Alleghennys, which provided a steady up and down; and you could be sure that at the bottom there was a stop sign, a traffic light or an intersection that made you stop and make sure you could not take any speed into the next climb. That way, we collected 2300 m of elevation.



We've done more, we have been riding longer distances, but I found this day was one of the hardest so far. (Of course, it didn't help that we found no breakfast for almost three hours and that my cleats came loose, with replacement parts being at the campground.)

We also had a bike path today, well suited for velomobiles:



But we made it, finally ...

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