John's Day 3 Journal: Salt Flats to Salt Lake City, And Beyond!
06/18/08 22:52 Filed in: Day 3-6/18
Updates
Route:
Bonneville Flats, UT,
to Provo, UT
Total Miles: 125 planned; 145 actual
Miles I Road: 107
To Date Total: 330
Weather: 60 degrees in the morning; 85 degrees at end of ride
Highlights
Three days from San Francisco to Salt Lake City. The day started around 2:30 am so we could drive to the 31-mile marker laid out alongside Highway 80 in the middle of Bonneville Flats. With a full moon as a guide, we headed out on our third day of riding. What a great day of riding. Personally, I’m feeling stronger each day. This is surprising to me and I expect to hit the wall anytime. In the meantime, the extra energy came in handy since the organizers under-calculated our distance by ten miles and then got a call asking our group to take on an additional ten miles at the end of our ride.
So far, there have been no issues within the group and the bonding has been great. Fran and Mike (Mom and Dad) take care of our every need. Rooms, food, and every other request the group might have is taken care. Mike is making sure I have a cold beer waiting for me at the end of the ride.
We traveled to Grand Junction, CO, by van tonight and will have 120 miles of gradual climb as our group takes on the first section of the Rocky Mountains.
There are seven days remaining on the ride but right now—even with the lack of sleep and a pair of shoes that send flames throughout my feet after about 70 miles— the trip has been better than I could have ever dreamed.
Enough for today… I need some sleep!
Total Miles: 125 planned; 145 actual
Miles I Road: 107
To Date Total: 330
Weather: 60 degrees in the morning; 85 degrees at end of ride
Highlights
Three days from San Francisco to Salt Lake City. The day started around 2:30 am so we could drive to the 31-mile marker laid out alongside Highway 80 in the middle of Bonneville Flats. With a full moon as a guide, we headed out on our third day of riding. What a great day of riding. Personally, I’m feeling stronger each day. This is surprising to me and I expect to hit the wall anytime. In the meantime, the extra energy came in handy since the organizers under-calculated our distance by ten miles and then got a call asking our group to take on an additional ten miles at the end of our ride.
So far, there have been no issues within the group and the bonding has been great. Fran and Mike (Mom and Dad) take care of our every need. Rooms, food, and every other request the group might have is taken care. Mike is making sure I have a cold beer waiting for me at the end of the ride.
We traveled to Grand Junction, CO, by van tonight and will have 120 miles of gradual climb as our group takes on the first section of the Rocky Mountains.
There are seven days remaining on the ride but right now—even with the lack of sleep and a pair of shoes that send flames throughout my feet after about 70 miles— the trip has been better than I could have ever dreamed.
Enough for today… I need some sleep!
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