Moving Time 4:27
Elevation 2,582ft
Avg Speed 14.6mi/h
Max Speed 31.7mi/h
Temperature 97
San Lorenzo County Park, 1160 Broadway, King City, 93930 to
Mid State Fairgrounds, 2198 Riverside Ave., Paso Robles, 93447
We started the day at 4am striking our tents and being greeted by our gear truck roadies in horror costumes.
Today's ride is known as Quadbuster Day. Don’t let the name scare you. We all made it to the top with our fellow cyclists - I made from camp to the top in 57 minutes. That deserves a great big thanks to the Training Ride Leaders for such great traing rides in the East Bay - Mary Vencill, Hugo Sosa, and Mark Smith. But Quadbuster is only a small part of the route on Day 3. I had such a great ride up the hill, but once I got to the rest stop I broke down in tears when Ramona Martinez asked how I did on the ride up. I can't express the emotions I'm going through - they're all over place. There was a good, quite space to reflect.
I finally calmed down and Mark Tidyman, my tent mate took a less emotional picture of me applying butt butter. Of course I hammed it up.
Rest stops were so much fun! Lunch was at the small town of Bradley, which has embraced the ride with open arms. We pedal on remote roads passing only a few small quaint stores, mostly later in the day.
One great thing about riding into these small towns or country stores is that AIDS/LifeCycle coming through, including cyclists, provide sources of income and fundraising that has been lost when 101 was built and bypassed these towns. One story I heard was that because of having lunch in Bradley - donating to the town for hosting and feeding us. Bradley was able to out a roof on one of their public buildings.
Rolling hills through beautiful countryside took us into camp.
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