You Want Me To Ride How Many Miles????

Today was our first Century Plus day of cycling. We left Jacksonville, NC at our normal time and cycled and cycled. The temperature was a little cool, but as I was told, you don't dress for the first couple of miles which is when you start to warm up from cycling, you dress for the day. Our day was going to get into the mid 70s with plenty of sunshine and, drum roll please.....No Rain. Think that's about four or maybe five days without rain. Guess my "no rain danced" worked.

Our first SAG stop was at the Wildlife Access Area off of Shaw Highway and that's were we saw our first sign of "Spanish Moss" hanging from the trees. We knew we were getting closer to South Carolina when we saw that, just not close enough, we still had about 78 miles to go before we crossed the state line into South Carolina.

Before the state line we cycled over another bridge with a steel deck, saw the Cape Fear River, rode towards Myrtle Beach and then on to Ocean Isle Beach and Calibash, where we stopped to have a late lunch. Then finally we saw the state line for South Carolina.

Our total ride today was 111 miles which took 6 hours 30 minutes. This turned out to be a personal best for me. When I trained for my 2010 Cross Country ride, I did a Century ride in 6 hours and 40 minutes. On today's ride my mph were 16.4. That's due to having a tail wind for most of the day and riding with the "Pedigree" Dogs. Thank you so much.