Day 24 - Montrose, CO

I thought today would be pretty easy, but I ended up riding up a lot more hills. The first few miles weren't bad, there was no wind and there was a lot of beautiful scenery. There was a lot of beautiful scenery the whole day actually. After the first 20 miles there started to be a lot of hills. I figured it would just be a few small hills but there ended up being hills that went up for miles. By that time the wind started kicking in too and that made it even harder. To make matters worse, my back wheel started acting up. I didn't know what exactly was wrong with it so I just took apart the whole tire. It ended up being fairly easy to repair but it took me over an hour to get it apart and fix. Shortly after there was a stretch of a few miles where I was going downhill and all was well. However that was short lived because there was another giant hill coming up. This one was fairly steep and lasted for 6 miles. I barely made it over and rode 15 miles downhill to Montrose where I am now. I could have gone a little further but I need to visit the bike shop here in town tomorrow. I'm camped out next to a few bikers who are going the opposite direction. They are doing about 120 miles a day but they have a van that carries all of their stuff with them. I don't really see the point in that but oh well. I wasn't expecting a lot of hills today and I managed to get through them and do 60 miles so I'm happy. Tomorrow should be fairly easy and I'm back down where there's oxygen, yey!