BTC 2008 – Part VIII – Cortez to Durango

This is the eighth and final part of a series of posts on my 2008 Bicycle Tour of Colorado experience.

Today as a relatively short day. There was an optional side trip to Mesa Verde, but having been to Mesa Verde the year before, I wasn’t about to try that climb. For the last twenty miles of yesterday’s ride, I was having foot problems. My right foot was going numb and it was getting hard to pedel. This has happened in the past, but I have never had to do another long ride the next day. Because of the shorter distance, we slept in a little and started a little later. By the time we left, most people were already gone. Though short, there was some climbing to today’s route. I made it over the first climb and into the Mancos rest stop without too much problem, but on the climb out of Mancos, my foot started to bother me again. I pulled off the road and waited for the SAG wagon, my tour was over. I joined about half a dozen other riders who also called it quits. Fortunately, this time we were in a 15 passager vans instead of a U-haul truck.

On the way home, we went north back through Silverton, Ouray and Montrose and spent the night at my dad’s place in Glenwood Springs. We got see the portion of the route we missed the first go round.

~ by adventurefish on May 4, 2009.