Woke up this morning to gloomy skies. The Epic Ride Weather app below had predicted that though there would be clouds, the chance of rain was zero and it was going be cool in the morning (low 50's) and warming up to the low 70's in the afternoon. With hopes that the app was correct, we headed out. Just in case, I brought my rain jacket along.
As you can see in the ride profile below, the ride started with a steep climb that quickly warm us up and off came the jackets. As we neared the top of the climb we could start to make out a bit of blue sky starting to appear. Maybe today was not going to be so bad.
The down hill dropped us into a beautiful green valley with winding roads and small arched bridges that crossed streams that crisscrossed the valley. The valley was lightly populated with small family farms and seemed to be raising cows and sheep and occasionally some farming.
It was on the valley floor that we could start to feel the wind. Heading directly East, the wind was giving us a very nice push and on occasion when a bend in the road would head us South, you could notice the difficulty of going against the wind.
We typically like to stop for a coffee about a quarter through the ride, but it was so lightly populated that we couldn't find a place to stop.
Jan was driving today and found a nice place in the small town of Charmes. It was likely the big city in the middle of the valley and we navigated to the center of town by following the reverse direction of the buses.
Brian
