Monday, June 18, 2018

Day 01 - Astoria to St. Helens

First real ride, 80 miles and over 4,000 feet of climbing.

The climbing is a challenge, no other way to say it; but we just keep peddling.  Climbing is just so different from riding at home, in Florida.

The morning started kind of cloudy.


We had breakfast, typical Holiday Inn Express fare, then we loaded up the luggage and we were off at 7:30 AM.

There were a couple of really long climbs today.  The really steep, long climb was at the end of the ride.  Along with the long climbs were some great down hills; my max speed on the down hill was over 35 miles per hour. 

A couple of videos from today.  Starting off this morning.


Going downhill.  We were going through the forests most of the day, pretty nice scenery.


Enough wood to choke a horse, or at least for the winter.


We had pizza, salad, lasagna with bread sticks for dinner.  Desert was chocolate chip cookies.

Tomorrow a bit shorter ride, but more climbing.  Tomorrow, the climbing is all during the last 30 or so miles of the day.

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