420.8 total trip miles
15.1 mph avg
1131’ climbing
FF - 5
MP - John Lehnerz & family - John & I are brothers from different mothers. We’ve worked together at St Frances Cabrini Parish on a wide variety of youth ministry & other parish activities. I can always count on John to keep my focus on serving God in all that I do.
Today was a strange day on this C2C ride. We expected sunshine & mid 60’s weather. We got overcast, with a 20 mph wind from the Southwest. You would thing with this trip going west to east, a southwest wind should make pedaling easier. Unfortunately about 20 miles of our route today was going south! That was a tough slog into the headwind. When we turned back heading east it seemed like the wind died down, until I stopped to take a picture & felt it as strong as ever. Just seems to die down when it’s pushing me along I guess. Overall I ended up with my fastest avg mph of the trip on the day with the most miles so far, and I’m really not that tired.
Interesting things today:
We really entered the cactus region of Arizona
There is more than one kind of cactus plant
There can be beautiful cloud formations before sunset & if you look carefully you can see a hawk in the blue sky
WDYLT - ILT My recumbent bike has a real advantage when there is a tail wind. I was passing people today that I never have on the trip so far.