Pueblo - Canon City (pronounced canyon City)
57 miles
4 hours and 38 minutes in the saddle
34.3 mph max speed
12.1 mph average speed
Today we had a short ride in preparation for the long climb up into the Rockies tomorrow. We are staying in Canon City which is a bit of a dump. The road out of Pueblo offered pleasant riding, but things got a bit ugly as we got closer to Canon City. The last 10 miles before Canon City were probably the worst we have had so far on the trip (even worse than nasty Kentucky dogs). Mette came off her bike, narrowly avoiding crashing into Stephen and grazed her knee and got some very stylish black and blue bruises on her thigh. It probably looked spectacular as I fell sideways at hardly any speed. The back wheel got buckled, yet again. That is 3rd time unlucky for that wheel. A little later a local driver decided to vent his anger on us. This is the first time in 2,300 miles that we have experienced road rage. A little later a metre long snake decided it wanted to cross the road in front of us. The upside was that Stephen finally managed to get the photo of a live snake that he has been trying to get for the last 1,500 miles. We have seen many snakes, most of them road kill and the ones that have been alive we have sped past. Given the snake was determined to cross the road we assume it is now road kill.
We went out for a very nice Chinese dinner and we got the obligatory fortune cookies, which had some very appropriate messages:
There is more to balance than falling over (yes, Mette got that one!)
The harder the fall, the higher the bounce - not sure that really makes sense
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