Yesterday (Monday), we woke up in Montezuma Creek, UT. The guys rode into Colorado, past Durango and up over the continental divide at Wolf Creek pass ... picking up speed all the time! Despite a lot of climbing, the team's average speed after crossing through the Rockies was 19.2 mph ... amazing what strong riders and a powerful tailwind can do when they work together!
Talk about a change in terrain, too. Here's a look at what the riders saw as they huffed it up Wolf Creek pass yesterday afternoon:
After crossing into Kansas early this morning, here's a sampling of their view today:
And they're going to be seeing a lot of views just like it for a while ... Kansas is a biiiiiiiiiiiig state. It's also a hot & windy state. At 1:00 p.m. CDT in Ford, Kansas, it's 90 degrees with brutally tough winds coming straight out of the south at 30 mph, gusting to 40 mph. If those winds were coming out of the west, we'd shorten this race by a day, but from the south they'll be hitting our boys right in the side all day. Ouch. Still, at the pace they're maintaining, we should hit the mileage halfway point -- 1,496.7 miles, somewhere between Cunningham, KS and Calista, KS -- before nightfall today.
Talk about a change in terrain, too. Here's a look at what the riders saw as they huffed it up Wolf Creek pass yesterday afternoon:
After crossing into Kansas early this morning, here's a sampling of their view today:
And they're going to be seeing a lot of views just like it for a while ... Kansas is a biiiiiiiiiiiig state. It's also a hot & windy state. At 1:00 p.m. CDT in Ford, Kansas, it's 90 degrees with brutally tough winds coming straight out of the south at 30 mph, gusting to 40 mph. If those winds were coming out of the west, we'd shorten this race by a day, but from the south they'll be hitting our boys right in the side all day. Ouch. Still, at the pace they're maintaining, we should hit the mileage halfway point -- 1,496.7 miles, somewhere between Cunningham, KS and Calista, KS -- before nightfall today.
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