Personal Best

First, I want to thank all of you for your continued support through comments, e-mails and text messages.  I know I am not able to answer all of them but it definitely gives me that extra push when I get them!!!

Today we rode 96 miles from Dubois, WY to Riverton, WY.  Our original route was 79 miles, however part of it was flooded out - so we took a detour.  Most people just wanted to get the day done.  After two days of massive climbing, we are pretty tired.  Most of us were thinking about tomorrow - a 120 mile day.  So the extra 17 miles + the climbing that it brought was not ideal.  Additionally, we ended up with crazy winds that always seemed to be in our faces no matter where we turned.  For me, the first 40 miles were fun with lots of downhills.  But overall, 96 miles is my personal best so I was very excited.  Today I sang show tunes all afternoon and had to remind myself about "the little train that could" to get myself up some of those hills.  Compared to what we did the last two days, these hills were reasonable.  However, my legs were like jelly so it was all mental. 

Today I passed the 1000 mile mark for the tour so it was extra special.  Overall, the ABB tally is 1255 miles and the Sharon Griff total is 1024 miles.  If my math is correct, we have covered 30% of our miles.  UNBELIEVABLE!!!

It was a beautiful day - and pretty amazing that yesterday we were in the snow capped mountains and today it was completely different (see below).  There were more pics from yesterday that didn't make it on due to technical difficulty - Enjoy!!

Please pray for a tailwind for our 120 mile from Riverton to Casper. 

Riding out this morning from Dubois - what a difference a day makes.

This morning

Yesterday morning riding out of Jackson Hole



Ed and Wanda climbing up yesterday's mountain pass. I was taking a break in the shade,



Yesterday, on the way out of the mountains.



The view from our first SAG stop yesterday.

Lucy on the Jackalope in Dubois.  Not much going on there.