Pismo Beach Pic From the Road

Yesterday we rode to Pismo Beach. It was beautiful!

Sunday through Today

So, as you know, Sunday, we rode from San Francisco to Santa Cruz. On Monday, we rode from Santa Cruz to King City. It was 107 miles of beautiful wine country with lots of difficult hills! We did another 60 Miles today with a fun lunch in Bradley, population 120. The lunch was great! Selling burgers for $5 to the Lifecycle riders every year helps raise money to support school programs including sports, music and arts programs in Bradley. Every year they raise over $10,000.00 with this lunch alone!! Speaking of lunch, we are eating so much food!! This morning we had a really big breakfast of eggs, muffins, yogurt, potatoes, english muffins, corn muffins, oatmeal, chocolate milk and coffee. Every day there are 4 rest stops with cliff bars, orange slices, bananas, gummi fruit and potato chips. And lunch is big, too...sandwiches, wraps, carrots, chips....we are consuming tons to keep our energy up! And of course, we're drinking about 5 water bottles filled with power aid each. We're tired but having a blast! Stay tuned....

Monday, June 1st - 107 Miles

Today is Santa Cruz to King City, 107 miles of very different terrains. With all of the Stop Lights and Signs it took 1.5 hours to leave the city of Santa Cruz....wow! Of course we start along the coast with incredible views! Both Danny and I were feeling refreshed and ready to ride (Lots of snoring in camp, but we got used to that). Again, who put hills in California's topography? Fun, but sometimes daunting.. Tons of Strawberry fields greet you with such wonderful aromas it's incredible. The day was a long one.....I (doug) got a head of Danny for half the day and just kind of rode on my own. Somewhere toward the end we met at a rest stop and got to do some neat rollers (rolling hills)....Power your way up, haul ass down, power up....etc etc......Good cross winds at the end of the day, but a tailwind for at least 20 miles in the middle of the day made it bearable!