This is the fearless leader Joey speaking! I didn't even have to wake up my fellow cyclists yesterday morning, what a way to start the day! Some bagels and cream cheese for breakfast are always a great way to juice up our mornings! After stuffing our packs with snacks for the ride, we set off during a beautiful morning!
Upon filling our packs up/bladder bags with artisan water from the side of the road well, we were ready for 17 miles of drafting! Every mile we would switch leaders so as to keep everyones legs fresh. Ya know, like DUCKS FLY TOGETHER (Mighty Ducks FOR LIFE)!!! Then it was onto the climbing. We started off with about a 10 mile 2% grade, which was super easy and we killed it on gears 2-7 and 2-8! Then the 5 mile 4% climb came, which you'd thing would be easy. Upon all of us trying to destroy the climb we all hit the same wall. Right before the last mile everyone one of us had experienced the same exhaustion... Our legs burned and felt like they weighed tons! The best part, it didn't stop us! Everyone made it up quite quickly and within about 10 minutes of each other! It was our second to last 9,000 + ft. summit, with today being 9,900 billion ft.!
Our descent was just grand! about 15 miles of all downhill to La Veta! Easy enough and as always, Nate was killing it! SO FAST!
We got to La Veta and got a grand deal to stay at the La Veta Inn! A wonderful little Inn filled with the best staff! Kurt the owner, Rupey the wife, Gabriel the prep cook (UHHH!), Fernando the cook, Scott the Head Chef, Shilo another cook, and Shawn the front desk! All wonderful people! Keep Colorado nice ya'll!
Upon getting our rooms we met up with a friend who now lives in Brighton Colorado. AJ! He went to college with Matt at UWSP and made the drive to meet us in La Veta, what a great guy! We all hopped in his sweet whip to go for a swim at a state park... LITTLE DID WE KNOW, that waiting for us at the Martin Lake, was two of the worst rangers we have ever encountered...
We were strolling around the lake having a great mid afternoon walk when we spotted some awesome rocks that appeared to be jump off able. Just so happened that was jump off able! We all took a few flying jumps into the lake and then out of the thicket came Ranger Donald Derewitsch! "HEY, STOP THERE, DON'T MOVE"! Out of breath from his 20 ft. walk from his car he came up to us looking terrified! I guess we can't jump off those rocks, and I guess we can't go swimming in the lake... Supposedly there was a sign stating this, but none of us had saw it, honestly! At this point he had another ranger there named Glenn Ramsey, who was actually seeming to be a nicer guy... but still... They gave us all Unlawful Swimming tickets of 52.50 each! UNREAL! Thanks for taking $200 away from the Arthritis Foundation... Perhaps some leniency about 4 out of state guys who literally didn't see the sign that stated we couldn't do what we did! You guys have literally been the first, hopefully the only, purely mean people we've ran into on this trip. Thanks a lot for your lack of affection to the world and those of us that are trying to create change!
After the swimming it was a delicious dinner at our little Inn! We ordered a bit of everything and all ate off the same plates! Cooks, props to you my friends! Then we had a few drinks thanks to Mark the bartender and Gabriel the prep chef! Twas a great night, except our room was about 100 degrees so we all just sorta sweat for the first 4 hours of sleep haha!
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Left to think about your actions... unlawful swimming... stupid
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