Garry McGivern’s bike-ride to Australia-and-beyond Wednesday, 6th-June-2012 Walden to Fort Collins. 97 miles. Breathtaking scenery today in more ways than one! Today, I reached my highest point, the Cameron Pass at 10276 feet, which wasn’t too bad a climb, as it was a nice gradual ride up. And it was only another 2000 feet up from where I’d started. I reached the top around lunchtime.
I’ve found it really hard to catch my breath today. I was fine, just cycling along. But I couldn’t catch my breath if I took a drink or tried to sing (I like to sing as I go along, or rather try!). That extra 2000 foot seems to have made a difference to me.
You would have thought that after spending the past two weeks at 5000 feet or above, and yesterday I was at 9500 feet, I would have acclimatised. Of course, it could have been my Asthma. But it doesn’t matter now, as I’ve dropped over 5000 feet now and feel fine.
I think I may have crossed the Rocky Mountains now, which were extremely beautiful and picturesque as I’ve had seventy miles of downhill from Cameron Pass to here in Fort Collins. I think I’ve now got miles of flatlands.
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