"Good morning Baltimore," no wait, this is Creston...
I had a 'mooing' competition with the cows, pretty safe to say that I won.
Stage 3 is complete, Creston - Salmo, 86km. Yes, that may seem like it is much shorter than the past two days, but really it felt much further. Creston to Salmo is a mountain pass, meaning I rode 41km up, and I mean up. I have never ridden up a hill, or mountain that big before. The last kilometer before the summit, I was only going 9.5km/hr. I had to stop about half a kilometer from the summit because the white line on the side of the road was moving...it wasn't actually moving. Today was a hard day, really hard, but I rode the whole thing.
Going down, well that is a different story. That was so much fun, I have never gone down a hill that long before, it was fast. I had to switch to my mountain bike because the shoulders on the way down are not always so road bike friendly, but I still went about 55-65km/hr the whole way down.
Today's shout-outs go out to: the guy who stopped me on the way up to the summit to donate $10, the semis and cars that gave me encouraging honks, the other cyclist I shared the shoulder with that I managed to pass twice on the way up (he was slow, but carrying about 50lbs of gear on his bike) and obviously my mom!
Yay!
Way to go Kaylynn, So far so AWESOME!! Keep it up.
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