Richmond – Fredericksburg

115.77km. 777m ascent. 5h25 ride time The penultimate day of our epic ride in the USA. Very hot and humid but a beautiful ride with, luckily, plenty of shade, thought the beautiful Virginia countryside. It was brutally hot again and this drained our energy but we made good headway and arrived at our motel around…

Newport News – Williamsburg

34.65km 131m ascent. 1h36 ride time A short ride today to bring us up to Williamsburg so we can spend the day visiting tomorrow. Not a great route through the built up areas but not bad. We had a great stay over with our Warmshowers hosts, as almost always we had plenty of common ground…

Glendale to Williamsburg. TransAmerica day 75

80.35km. 312m ascent. 3h42 ride time Super easy ride today bringing us so close to the end of our trip across the USA. (We still have 310km to ride up to Washington DC, but that is an extra) Most of the ride was on the dedicated cycle path and we have not met as many…

Radford to Daleville. TransAmerica day 70

90.13km. 1,044m ascent. 4h16 ride time (I’ve been miscounting so no day 69!) What a beautiful ride today! It was supposed to be downhill, but we still had over 1,000m ascent with all the little ramps we climbed. The Roanoke Valley is really beautiful. Apart from that the day was uneventful and we are now…

Troutdale to Radford. TransAmerica day 68

127.57 km. 1,411m ascent. 6h02 ride time Despite a good night’s sleep in the bunkhouse, I wasn’t in good form today. I don’t know why, but I had no power in my legs. Anyway the ride was generally downhill even though we actually climbed over 1,400m The first part of the day was beautiful, the…

Hindman to Breaks. TransAmerica day 65.

107.52 km. 1,346m ascent. 5h46 ride time Last night we shared the hostel with 3 others, an Englishman, Matt riding the same way as us and 2 American TransAmerica racers. The racers got up at 03h00, I heard their alarm clock! They left without cleaning up after themselves which, I think is inexcusable. To empty…

Harrodsburg to Berea. TransAmerica day 62

80.64 km. 952m ascent. 4h03 ride time Today we actually got a decent breakfast at the hotel. That’s the first time since we set off! Another beautiful ride through Kentucky. It was super humid today at 96% humidity and quite warm in the upper 30s but such beautiful countryside. We stopped at a sign ‘cyclists…

Springfield to Harrodsburg. TransAmerica day 61

45km. 512m ascent. 2h05 ride time Super humid and hot today but we had a short ride to get to Harrodsburg to visit the 1770s reconstructed fort there. The ride continued through the beautiful countryside of Kentucky with plenty of short sharp climbs to keep us sweating. An excellent choice and only $6/person (over 55…

Buffalo to Springfield. TransAmerica day 60

91.35 km. 934m ascent. 4h32 ride time 60 days continuous riding. Neither Stef nor I have ever done so much riding We are really in the rhythm and feel we could go on for ever at this pace or even more 😊 Easy day today through the beautiful Kentucky countryside with no wind at all…

McDaniels to Buffalo. TransAmerica day 59

83.88 km. 734m ascent. 4h08 ride time After a good night’s sleep in our tent at the lake we set off around 07:36 in cool but sunny conditions. This is the first day when we have set off with temperatures under 19C for quite a long time now. A beautiful day and although the wind…