Started off the day a little rough, didn't want to wake up, accidentally turned my alarm off and woke up 10 minutes after wake up call when I was trying to wake up 10 minutes early to do some last minute packing. Rushed to pack and change into Chamois to get on the bike, grabbed my things and was downstairs ready just in time. I rode with Brand again and Jeff who I haven't ridden with in a while. Jeff said the whole 60 miles was downhill so I was pretty happy with that. Turns out that he was definitely wrong but it was still one if the best rides we have had. After we got out of town and onto a state highway it was rolling hills for about 20 miles but the best kind of rolling hills, long climbs and long descents, it was a blast and we had great mountain views the whole time, we could see Pike's Peak clearly for most of the morning. Finally we get to the top of a climb to start a descent that went on for most of a 12 mile stretch. At the bottom we turned onto a different highway and suddenly we had a strong tailwind, first time in a while it was going in our direction and we started flying. We were cruising on flats and taking on hills at 20-30 mph with ease and kept it up even when the wind died down and turned into a cross wind. I did accidentally forget both water bottles at the crew stop before the tailwind but was able to pick up a spare at the next crew van. We all made it to lodging early including our first crew ride along, Ruby was the first crew member to get on a bike with us, it was fun to have him on the road and awesome to see him push through a 60 mile ride for his first ride on a road bike. A couple more crew are going to hop on a bike pretty soon too, can't wait for them to get a taste of what life ia like for us cyclists.
Dinner was supposed to be a friendship visit but the sponsor wasn't in town so we still met at the pizza restaurant and were fed pizza after pizza until we couldn't take any more. The area was also really cool despite being warned about how ugly Pueblo is. It was a very artsy, nice downtown with lots of cool fountains and behind the restaurant was a fountain running into a canal that had little boats going through the whole time.
Tomorrow is a real early and long day wake up at 5:00am and ride 130 miles in up to 98°, supposedly all downhill but we will see if that is true this time and the wind could be less than helpful, can't wait though, excited to log another century ride with the team.
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