Author: chris

Distance: 15.8 avg: 10.6 Today was my first day of high altitude climbing. I went up 3500 ft to 7214. I could really feel the effect of the thin air. My speed was low and the uphills tough. I felt lightheaded and fought a light headache part of the day. Later on I hit a…

Distance: 17 avg: 8.9 The following entry is a bit more graphic than most. I don’t attempt to hold anything back. I don’t want to lose the accuracy and emotion of the situation because of etiquette. Welcome to a new level of knowing me. But if you can get past the grossness, I hope you…

Distance: 45 avg: 13.3 Yesterday I neglected to mention my cycling gear got melted to the side of a dryer. The temperature control was broken and it basicallly ruined a good amount of my gear. I was pulling my melted booties off my jacket. Important lesson: cyclists, don’t trust laundromat dryers! Or any dryer! Check…

Distance: 35 avg: 17.5 I don’t know what really bothers me with the place that john found us. Perhaps that it’s filthy, or that the people there are kinda delusional, lazy, and complicated. I don’t know about that last part, it’s hard to lump a group of people together. They’ve been very nice to me,…

Distance: 40 avg: 9.3 We woke up to rain, which wasn’t letting up. We were low on water so we finally broke camp and got on the road about 1. It was still raining. We biked quietly through the rain, making slow miles. We needed to break for food after a couple hours and decided…

Distance: 95 avg: 12.6 Idaho gave us a chance to really work on some technical high-speed turns. The 13 heading out of Grangeville has some intense downhill winding roads. No traffic meant we could really corner and get strategic. After our ‘free’ miles and a ton of rest we felt we could really go the…

Distance: 20 avg: 7 We had a pretty good 4000′ climb for us first thing in the morning. Some Honduran guys kept buying John drinks the night before. His hangover and my recovery evened us out a bit. We had some light snow but overall a good climb. After climbing this vertical beast we zoomed…

Distance: 65 avg: 14.1 I lost a sock today. Omg WTF what a tragedy! Ok moving on… After a good 10 hours of sleep in a hotel bed I was still not feeling well. And after the first 25 miles I was feeling pretty tired. It may seem strange to think, but I started zoning…

Distance: 70 avg: 10.6 We left from our campsite/lawn and started immediately biking up our 2000′ climb. A family of deer crossed the road, just as curious about us. Idaho’s road are built much steeper than Oregon’s, possibly out of necessity. I hit a new top speed of 37.7 today. We took a slight off-road…

Distance: 9 Man, I don’t know what I’ve got to do to get the fish to bite but it wasn’t happening. I woke up feeling rather miserable. I think I have a cold. I warmed up to the day slowly. After some brekkie I started fishing and relaxed. I seem to be slightly better. I…