Another huge day of climbing! Today was another great day…the Kootenay Pass is a climb so large that it would be beyond grade in international bike tours. There is very little like it in even the Tour de France and it is almost certainly the longest and most difficult climb in BC. So I am just thrilled to have done it 3 times!!! It was not easy by any means. This time it was very hot making fluid in take extra important, I must have gone through nearly three bottles of drink to get up there. This time was also perhaps my best time, I did the whole climb in an hour and 42 minutes, way faster than last time.
Everyone did a great job today! I struggle to convey just how tough this ride is to people, and I would particularly love to find a way to convey in a minute or so exactly how hard that climb is. Today we all earned our sponsorships! Another great thing about today is that many of us did things we thought we never could manage. For me it was a hat-trick of climbs over this mountain, I think only Simon and I have done that. That is the great thing about this ride and it is a good message for the future of CF too…great things can and will be achieved with the right frame of mind and will…we just have to keep pushing.
At lunch:
On the way up the Salmo Creston:
Very impressive (and it is nice to see you looking so happy)!
Great Job as always!!! Looks like you are having an amazing ride. Thinking of all of you. Can’t wait to hear about it when you are done.
Chris K.