Today’s theme was elevation. I’m going to show off the Strava shot first, to provide data for the story. We left town for today’s 48 smiler through Staunton, although the route did hit some new roads getting out of town. They all went up, so I got my heart pumping pretty quickly. As you can […]
Planning to be out well before nine… Riiiiight. Anyone who knows me will be unsurprised to hear that target was missed. Not by much though. By the time we were rolling it was only around 9:30. Good enough! We decided to be conservative and choose the 40 smile mile ride today, understanding that 40 miles […]
Today I awoke in a fairly comfortable hotel bed and thought, “What am I doing?” It started raining on the drive yesterday a few hours out of Staunton, which I had expected from the forecast. But it rained all evening, and having brought my road bike with the skinny, treadless tires, I was beginning to […]
Turns out the cleanliness of my bathroom depends on my travel schedule. It’s the evening before I leave for my first bike tour of the year, and 10:30pm finds me not settling down into bed, preparing for a good night’s rest, but breathing fumes while cleaning my shower. The only time I clean my shower […]
We had comfortable sleeping weather last night, and woke up to basically dry tents. Every night has been different! Cynthia and I missed our planned departure by only 20 minutes today. We felt some pressure to get going, since I was shooting to be done by noon. No big deal though, it was easily achieved. […]
After yesterday’s 70-mile terrain packed day, today seemed pretty easy. We lagged a bit and we were out at our latest time yet at nine. It got super chilly last night, and I woke up at 3am feeling cold. Got up a few hours later to a low temp and a LOT of dew; it […]
A day off the bike and out of the routine was enough to set our departure back to 8:37 this morning. Would make you think we didn’t have 70 miles ahead of us. The day was very lovely. The high was only in the low 70’s, so even as the afternoon wore on it never […]
I consider this day seized. I slept in, till 7:30!! I didn’t have to rush, I didn’t have to break down my camp and pack up. It was quite decadent! Cynthia and I hung out together today and had a very enjoyable time. First up was breakfast at Round’s, where I had pancakes and a […]
Today was as different from yesterday as possible. I still rode 60+ miles and there were many hills, but otherwise totally different. The rain cleared off and today dawned clear but pretty chilly. I heard a few people saying they were uncomfortably cold, but I actually slept very well. I wore my jogger plants and […]
I slept well last night, which was fortunate, because today was a challenge. I woke up around 6:15 to thunder. By the time I’d gotten changed out of my Pjs it was raining. I walked in to breakfast in the pouring rain, so I started the day wet and stayed that way until after my […]
Steffanie Is Still Here 