got on the road at 7:15. Headed out of Winslow on Route 66. Passed the 'famous' Winslow corner. If you're a fan of the Eagles, 'standing on the corner in Winslow' will mean something to you, but it passed me by.
Soon joined up with the Interstate. We couldn't have hoped for better weather, still hot and sunny, but the main thing, blasting 20-30 mph winds behind us all day. It's the furthest I've ever ridden in a day and also the fastest, overall we averaged just over 20 mph (134 miles in just under 6.5 hours bike time) although we did have fairly long breaks at the SAGs.
This was the only photo I took all day. It's at our lunch SAG, there was a 6 lane highway just behind me. It was really desolate, there was literally tumble weed blowing along the highway. Later in the day did see some colourful rock formations, but that's about it.
Only problem today was the debris everywhere, mainly parts of truck tyres, but also bits of wood, bottles of piss, you name it. Several rides had flats. I was really really lucky, have managed to avoid that so far, but do have a chunk out of my front tyre.
Linda was pretty much recoverd from her fall and rode all day. Everyone else has various ailments, the most common seems to be numb fingers, makes typing difficult.
134 miles is one hell of a long way, even with good winds, it's tiring just trying to avoid all the lumps and bumps. Had a severe pain in my knee at about 40 miles, but it soon passed and didn't return. Have very sun burnt lips, but apart from that all OK. Tomorrow we do pretty much exactly the same thing all over again.
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