ridin' in the wind

We set of late today due to our visit at the Dorcy Cancer Center in Pueblo. It is such a great center and we met up with patients and staff and supporters, reporters and survivors. It was fantastic and emotional at the same time and the bike ride offered a nice balance to it.....except when we arrived back at the camp site to pack up to get a ride back on the course (40 miles outside of Pueblo)....we were greeted by trees bent side-ways in wind gusts, tents getting stuck in fences blown away by the winds and dusty clouds preventing us to see the mountains in the West. Very scary and dooming. We decided to go to our drop off point anyway to check it out, just in case it was rideable. Once we arrived we stepped out leaning into the wind but to our delight we discovered it came straight from behind us. We hopped onto our bikes and almost didn't have to pedal. In 2:45 min we had covered 51miles (and that included our short breaks for food). We loved this new experience and felt so lucky. We had achieved a lot in one day. We also enjoyed the open wide plains of an entirely new landscape.

gundy