Hi everyone! Welcome to day 67. Our days in Oregon are coming to an end, and even though it is definitely a pretty state, we are all very happy about leaving it. It has been incredibly hot here, with temperatures getting up to over 100 degrees. Day 67, in particular, decided to be the hottest day of the ride (110 degrees!), so even despite rolling out of our stayover on time we were not able to beat the heat as it was already about 80 degrees by 8 AM.
The first 40 miles of the day went by relatively painlessly since the heat was not as bad yet and we did not have any climbs. After our second rest stop at mile 40 however, we had some pretty big climbs to do right at the time the heat was at its worst, so after starting to bike that stretch, our ride leaders decided that we all should shuttle the rest of the way to the stayover. The decision was almost unanimously met with relief by the rest of the riders since it did in fact feel too hot to even function in any way outside.
We also got to meet a very cute puppy at our second rest stop before shuttling. He made all of us regain just a little bit of sanity on this insanely hot day of biking.
We did all we could all day to cool off including but limited to…
Getting milkashakes
Hugging a bag of ice
Undressing O_O
After we shuttled the last 20 miles to our stayover, we all took much needed showers that we luckily had available right at the stayover. We then went out to get dinner at In-N-Out Burger since most of us heard of it but never tried it (it was OK), and spent the rest of the evening in the coolness of our stayover resting and watching High School Musical 2 for a team movie night.
-Valerie