A beautiful day to ride today, but a long day. We were in the saddle for a little over five hours, which ended up being a little over seven hours with stops. The first stop was at an old train station in Rockford Village at the bottom of a fast steep down hill ride. I mean right at the bottom. Everyone had to ride the brakes hard to get into the rest stop.
We followed the Yadkin river for a while before we climbed back out of the valley. Today was more elevation than the previous day, but only due to being 17 miles further. The mountains weren’t as steep today, just more of them.
The note is a little shorter today. It was a long day. We got to the hotel at 4:30, cleaned up, went out to eat and returned to the hotel by 8:00 ready for sleep. Tomorrow will be the longest day of the week at 72 miles. However it should go quicker than today due to less hills. After that we average around 60 miles per day and the hills subside more and more each day.
