Sunday, October 17.
It rained nearly all day. We started out in great spirits looking forward to the challenge. We cruised through Santa Cruz, and then the surrounding fields of broccoli and artichoke as we headed south to finally ride through historic cannery row ... then someone had the bright idea to ride the 17 Mile road to Pebble Beach. I'm sure on a sunny day its beautiful. In the middle of their first fall storm ... its brutal. Wind, rain, more wind ... ugh, pretty tough. When we finally made it to lunch at pebble beach scores of riders were bailing and taking the support vans to the resort.
Your intrepid travellers decided to carry on and we rode through Carmel and on the coast toward Big Sur. Im not exagerating when i tell you we were battling 50+ mile an hour headwinds. Have you ever had sheets of rain pelt you in the face at 50 miles an hour???
Im so proud of Peter sticking it out to mile 73 that day. Exhausted and hypothermic, we finally jumped in the support van for the final 15 miles. Very few of the group did the entire ride that day!
After dinner we went to bed looking forward to finally seeing the sun.
Soaked to the bone at about mile 69.
Trying to smile through it!
Sorry it's been so brutal. It's all "uphill into the sun" from here. Love you both!
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