by nickpannaman | May 30, 2018 | blog, USA | Mississippi River ride
66 miles ridden – 950 feet climbed – temperature 21C Weather forecasts are not always right but today it was – it did rain. However it was pretty warm so aside from the spray coming from passing trucks it wasn’t too bad. It didn’t even...
by nickpannaman | May 29, 2018 | blog, USA | Mississippi River ride
72 miles ridden – 4300 feet climbed – temperature 30C Today was all about climbing and flies. It was a bit cooler today when we left but that was more than compensated for by constant small hills or rollers. We try and get enough speed going down to get us...
by nickpannaman | May 28, 2018 | blog, USA | Mississippi River ride
93 miles ridden – 2800 feet climbed – temperature 33C With a long ride and temperatures expected to exceed 100F mid/late afternoon it was an early start – breakfast at 05:00 and load/leave at 06:00. I have to admit that facing food that early...
by nickpannaman | May 27, 2018 | blog, USA | Mississippi River ride
57 miles ridden – 1000 feet climbed – temperature 30C (more on that later!) Although today was a short day there was significant negotiation last night for an early start time as we knew it was going to be a very hot day. We settled on breakfast at 06:00...
by nickpannaman | May 26, 2018 | blog, USA | Mississippi River ride
94 miles ridden – 1650 feet climbed – temperature 29C Another fabulous day’s cycling although at 5:30 this morning a thunderstorm came through town which woke us all up. While it caused some concern by the time we loaded at 07:00 we had a beautiful...
