Into the Mountains...Hope-Princeton

Tandem day factoaloids:

Saturday May 8: Agassiz to Manning Park

Distance Cycled 85.32 km

Cycling Time: 4 hrs. 39 mins

Avg. 18.3

61.34

Sunday May 9: Manning Park to Princeton

Distance Cycled: 89.65 kms

Cycling Time: 4 hrs 45 mins

Avg. Speed: 31.78

Max Speed: 61.92 km/h

We have just emerged from the mountains. The tall leg smashing mountains.

We spent most of yesterday and today climbing the roads rising out of the Fraser Valley, and into the interior plateau. As the road gains in elevation, the weather gets colder. The road climbs the mountains out of hope, and keeps going until Manning Park. This is where we have been cycling.

After climbing and climbing, our legs would begin to burn. each of us consumed more calories in a day than we thought possible. As we rose each pass, the weather would begin to change. We battled through the lactic acid and muscle tear butt pain of all time, and then coast down the other side of the pass, gaining lost time like a freewheelin mountain smashing quad-tandem bike.

We geared each other up, and encouraged the tandem man behind him to keep pushing. The downhills are our reward.

We have cycled more in the past 2 days than i ever thought i would cycle in one trip. And we did it together on one bike.

tomorrow, down the valley ahead and into the desert of Osoyoos. feelin good.

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