Good Morning! from 10200' Leadville CO

The Plan calls for a 60 mile ride to Poncha Springs CO. I'm not seeing any Mountain Passes on my route and the elevation of PS is 7465' which means I'll lose about 2500' of elevation over the 60 miles.... so I might make it. If I gas out I have a backup plan to stay in Buena Vista. I slept better last night... I feel better this morning so we'll see what happens. Yesterday I was really not doing well until about 330 - 4 when I lost cell service and I was about a mile and a half from the top... then all of a sudden something changed and I felt better and I started really making progress. The Human Body is an amazing Machine... when you put it under stress it responds... I've experienced this over and over... when I start one of these tours it always takes my body about 3 - 4 days to adjust to the new conditions so yesterday's "breakthrough" was right on time. I'll talk more about
this in future posts but now I have to get ready for today's challenge!