We started at The Breaks Interstate Park in Virgina and finished 67 miles later at Jenny Wiley State Park in Kentucky.
Todays start was pretty easy. The first 7 miles or so was down hill. I can't imagine riding that in the up hill direction. I would be dead by the time we got to the top.
Steven did great. We started out with a slight problem. I forgot to pack my bike shoes. I seemed to remember everything else but those. At our second SAG stop (after a quick detour to Walmart) tried to replace my pedals with regular ones, but the Walmart pair were not the right size. So we just moved the back saddle clips to the front since Steven does not lift in his peddle stroke, he only presses down. I found a set of Look clips in my support bag and put those in back with were big enough for Stevens foot. This helped a lot.
We made it to our lunch stop after cheating on a big hill. We rode in the SAG van up a very long steep hill.
After lunch everything was going well until a K-Mart bag blowing across the road got sucked into our rear derailler. We had to stop and and clear it out. "K-Mart Sucks" or at least their bags do when people don't dispose of them correctly.
We made it to Jenny Wiley! This is a very nice park and lodge.
Steven has seemed to enjoy the ride. He got tired a few times on some of the hills. This was a pretty challenging day, but not as bad as tomorrow will be.
Don't forget to visit the WhyIRide website.
For more pictures and information click on the "Follow My Ride" link on the right and check out each day.
-- Bill and Steven
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