us we just continued to eat and then drive out to Trace and started riding by 6:30. It was a gorgeous first 22 miles and then all of a sudden, our nice smooth road turned into a rough worn tar and chip!!! YucK!! We lost so much time on that surface - rode it for 61 miles until the last 12 miles turned back to a very smooth surface!!! It was very hot and humid, but as long as you ate and kept hydrated, you were ok. This was a long day - 90 miles - Randy and Carl rode their first century ride. Poor Carl is having difficulty sitting down!! Cindy rode her first 50! Marianne rode her first 40! We had our first person to have to ride in the van due to a flat tire! Dave popped a spoke! I rode 90 with Arlene - first time I have ridden this many miles on back to back days! We all feel good and arrived in a little town of Eupora, Ms - we are staying in the cutest little Bed and Breakfast tonight and as I type, the owner is getting our breakfast ready for tomorrow morning at 5:30 so we can start off again on another 90 mile ride - we hope the surface is good because we will have an 11mph northeast wind. We have heard the high is to be 83 which will be our coolest day so far - can't say that any of us will miss the heat!! SAG wagons have taken incredible care of us!! The food at the rest stops are laid out ready for us to eat - water bottles, etc. ready for us so we could move on!! Would like to say more, but must go to bed - I didn't have time to download pictures from my camera so these are from yesterday. One picture is of an 6 mile resevoir - picture of myself and 3 of the women -we called ourselves Natchez Parkway Wilted Women's Cyclists!!! This was toward the end of Sunday's ride.
Hope all are well! Randy and Carole
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