Fordham/CitySquash Cross-Country Bicycle Ride
Day 5 Ely, Nevada to Beaver, Utah
Fordham Coach Bryan Patterson and several players are cycling from San Francisco to New York to raise money for CitySquash, a not-for-profit after-school enrichment program based in the Bronx at Fordham University.
Coach Patterson is sending reports to DailySquashReport.com from the road.
June 10, 2011-Day 5 Lovely Route 50 - get your kicks on Route 50!! Then we leave it!
Well we made it to Day 5 which some people predicted that we wouldn’t. Go Team. Climbs and valleys- and this is some of the most beautiful scenery that you could wish to see. It just goes on and on.
Our system of the van going 10 miles and we ride to it changed to 5 miles which was a good move. Was just more encouraging, and really did make for better riding. It’s amazing just how we depend on water, water and more water. You really need to drink loads, and as they say a little often is best.
Raymond was the man today, he’s like a machine and just rides on with Jack the lad encouraging either Felipe or Angel – who he has now named Rafa after Nadal. Angel does look a little like him.
Nevada seems to be a very dry State, and once we hit the Utah border it was quite strange just how many more lakes and rivers there are. Pictures at the State line, is always a must, plus we gain an hour, then on we go. The scenery is more lush, but only just, and we wave to cowboys and cowgirls rounding up their herd.
A terrific site and they and we appreciated the wave to each other. Another site was an entrance to a Ranch which had an arch made entirely of antlers probably from deer or buck, an awesome site but one wonders just how many animals were killed to make this.
But on we ride passes and valleys – one moral of this ride would be that “to go down you first have to go up” and boy did we know that. Rafa’s chain came off at one of the summits, just as he was about to pelt down and get up some speed. Too bad, we thought, but Jack came back in the back up van and fixed the problem and Rafa was off down the pass.
Most of the passes are around the 6000+ feet mark and although we don’t do all that altitude they are all tough climbs. So seem to go on forever, and I’m pleased that we all give each other encouragement to keep gritting our teeth and make it to the summit.
Finally we leave our beloved Route 50!!!
On to route 21 and on into Milford, our overnight stop. We realized that once in Milford our camp site was actually about 12 miles away in Beaver, so of in the van on this one.
Good site with pretty good amenities, an electric cooker was terrific and Andriy cook chicken BP had an omelets, so really good food, then tent up and then to bed – yippee.
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