Eureka to about 30 miles east of Ely, NV. My stats for today (from my bike computer): 107 miles, average speed 15.6 (a new average speed record), time on the bike: 7:05 hours, high speed 41.7mph. Wow, today could be considered the Day of Days for this week. Starting in Eureka, you start climbing immediately [...]
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Ride from Reno – Day 3
June 17th, 2009 
lpeterson Ride from Reno – Day 3 With hours in the saddle and not much more to do than peddle, watch the desert go by and think about tasks to be done, I had tonight’s blog all planned out. However, it was all washed away on Connors Summit. We thought we were getting wet the last [...]
Day 3 – Mike
June 17th, 2009 mnelson And I thought yesterday was grueling. Yesterday’s greatest effort was just pushed to second place. Today was five climbs with the baby being 6,517 and the beast at 7,722 feet. As if that wasn’t enough, it rained and rained, and rained. I finished the ride soaking wet, to the skin, through my water-resistant gear (where [...]
Day 2 – Jeff
June 17th, 2009 jwarren I woke up this morning thinking about cancer and it was on my mind all day. I couldn’t help it! I had a chemical burn on the left side of my tongue this morning, and my first thought was, “Oh, crap! I fell asleep with my trays in my mouth!” Because of all the radiation I had in [...]
Day 1 and Day 2 – Don
June 16th, 2009 dleslie Day 1 – I was at my Grandma’s in Fallon yesterday so I didn’t have access to write Day 1 notes. Over 130 miles with over 8 hours of riding. A VERY long day on the bike. We started at the arch in downtown Reno, went over to Virginia City and up and over Geiger [...]
Ride from Reno – Day 2
June 16th, 2009 lpeterson Ride from Reno – Day 2 Oh, how good the hot shower felt after today’s ride! And what a day it has been. The best, in a way, was the beginning because, Judy, my wife, started the day with us. This was an enormous accomplishment for her. For her to do this would have been [...]
Day 2 – Mike
June 16th, 2009 mnelson Well, the only thing that didn’t happen today was snow. It is interesting to note that head and wind are both four letter words. The last twenty miles it rained and rained and rained. It was probably the most painful day I have ever had and finished. But, it was still better than being in [...]
Day 2: Taylor
June 16th, 2009 tnelson Ohhh boy what a day. To start off, we had to drive about 60 miles to the shoe tree. We got out and the wind was coming from the east. We got all ready to go and to warm up to a head wind. We were going 8 miles an hour for what seemed like [...]
