134 miles (3271 ft climbing), 8:39 hours 18.5 mph
Today was a shorter day. There’s no guarantee on that being any easier on this tour but weather conditions were favorable and we ended up making good time with an initial climb to mile 40 and then all trending downhill after that for the remainder of the day. Despite some threatening clouds we managed to dodge any rain.
Our usual pattern emerged of arriving close to the front at the initial sag stops and then departing after everyone else and having a stream of people up the road to chase down. Some good stretches of fast pace lining by the three of us with 1 mile pulls for each rotation.
We eased off a bit to ride with a larger group leading into lunch and into the finish and had another good stretch of fast riding along I90 to get the freeway miles over with quickly.
It’s great to get in earlier to our overnight to have a bit more downtime and recovery ahead of the last day of the tour tomorrow. Only 150 miles to go!
