Today we were up early, 6am, so that John could drive me from Humboldt over to Pocahontas to ride today’s stage of the RAGBRAI to Emmetsburg. This year is the 49th edition of this 8-day event which John has done twice before and convinced me to at least experience one…
July 25th: North Platte NE – Humboldt IA: no cycling
Today was the second day of our trek east to ride a stage of the RAGBRAI from Pocahontas to Emmetsburg. Before leaving North Platte we drove out of town to the see one of the largest railroad marshalling yards in the world – eight miles long and over a mile…
July 24th: Georgetown – North Platte: no cycling
Today we start our journey back east. Mark had left very early to return to Idaho and before we set off we bought tickets for a ride on the old Georgetown to Silver Plume loop railroad that was built for the mines in 1884. As a narrow gauge railway it…
July 23rd: Frisco – Georgetown, 65km, 973m climbed
We hard a hard day ahead of us today so we were up early for tea and coffee. Hotels don’t offer any food because of covid and there was nowhere open offering a breakfast. However, we still managed to dawdle over drinks and managed to be late setting off and…
July 22nd: Frisco – Boreas Pass – Frisco: 63km, 653m climbed
We were up early to a wonderful clear blue sky and a Main St. devoid of vehicles because overnight parking is banned! What a great idea. The plan was to ride through Breckenridge and up the Boreas Pass road to the top. Mark was missing this ride out to spend…
July 21st: Leadville – Frisco, 52km, 461m climbed
Last night I did not want to walk 2 km into town and back because I would not have had time for the blog so I went to a small Mexican diner behind Safeway and Mark and John went into town. They were not in a very good condition this…
July 20th: Aspen – Leadville, 98km, 1644m climbed
We all managed to get up just after 5 am. The weather forecast showed a 70% chance of rain so we delayed our start to 6:30 which, after 3 trips from the room to the street to get everything downstairs, became 6:50. We were immediately on our way and had…
July 19th Aspen: 6km, 43m climbed
As you can see from the numbers we have not done much cycling today. We did have a ride to see Maroon Bells on the plan, but that was just an option. We all decided to save our energy and leg muscles for tomorrow rather than make the 500m climb…
July 18th: Glenwood Springs – Aspen: 72km, 651m climbed
Today’s stage did not look too difficult on paper but it wore us down because it was uphill all the way. We were in no rush to leave early so we took our time getting breakfast and then loading the bikes. The first stop was at a bike shop to…
July 17th: Rest day in Glenwood Springs
Today was planned as a rest day and it was a good job too. We all felt the effect of yesterdays ride and didn’t make it down to breakfast much before 10. We are in the La Quinta motel which is more upmarket than anything we have used so far….
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