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| This ride takes the cake for the hardest ride of the trip. Hands down. No contest. In fact, NO ONE finished. At the beginning of Bike and Build I set a personal goal to never be vanned. And until today I hadn't been; I've done ALL of every single ride. But today the winds were so strong and the mileage so high that it would have taken about 11 hours, not including breaks to finish the full 110 miles. And once we got to Raton, NM at mile 84 we were supposed to make a turn onto an interstate that the leaders felt was unsafe. So, we were shuttled to the host from that point. Even though I got vanned, I was really proud of myself for finishing all that I as allowed to, because the ride was brutal and I had to push myself harder than ever before. I was considering vanning myself at first lunch about 37 miles in and I somehow rode almost 50 more miles. Oh, by the way, I hit 2,000 miles! |
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| The New Mexico skies and the stand alone mountains in the distance sure are an amazing site. This picture doesn't even come close to capturing just how colorful and how massive they are, respectively. |
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| We rode by Capulin Volcano, a long extinct volcano formed 60,000 years ago by four lava flows that rises nearly 1,000 feet above the rest of the landscape in a nearly perfect shaped cinder cone. |
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| At some point during the last 10 mile stretch of the ride, I rounded a bend in the road and, what do you know, the Rockies stood before me, probably a hundred miles away. |
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| Even though we were vanned, we were able to stop at the state line! WELCOME TO COLORADO! |
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| Tonight we had prom, "famous couples" edition. Guests included Mario and Luigi, Buzz Lightyear and Jessie, Hugh Hefner and a Playboy bunny, Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, and the Joker and Harley Quinn. |
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| Marine and I went as Sonny and Cher! |
The Catty Corner: Did you hear about the vampire bicycle that went around biting people's arms off? It was a vicious cycle.
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