Distance: 75 miles
Time: 5.5 hrs
Elevation Gain: 2,448 ft
Today's ride started with heavy fog and a good climb. The fog helped to keep us cool during the climb with temperatures in the mid 60's. The sun quickly burned the fog off and it got into the low to mid 80's by early afternoon. We did a lot more climbing today then we have done in a while, a warm up for final days of ridding up and over the Green Mountains of Vermont and New Hampshire. I had a nice enjoyable ride through the country side with lush green and thick forest, rolling hills, and ridding about 20 miles on a paved bike path that took us along the Erie Canal. We road through a few small towns that looked run down and one almost like a ghost town in the fog.
I had my rear tire blow out early in the ride and luckily 2 of our support vans were not far behind me. They stopped and helped me replace the tire and got me back on the road. Another ridder had his front tire blow out while going done a hill and crashed. He's OK, but cut his head that required 16 stitches.
Tomorrow will be a hard day, we have over 6,000 ft of climbing and 80 miles as we start our climb into the Green Mountains and into Vermont.
Link to My GPS Route
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Front Camera View - Entering the Twilight Zone
Rear Camera View - Ron
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Rear Camera View - Diane
Rear Camera View - A Lock on the Erie Canal
Rear Camera View - Terry
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Front Camera View - Erie Canal on the left
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Front Camera View - Road Hazard
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Pedal On!!
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