Miles: 71 Miles
Ride Time: 4 hours 13 minutes
Avg. Speed: 16.9 Mph
Total Climbing: 6465 feet
Work: 2353 kJ
Today we rolled into Nashville. It is the largest city we will bike through and our final rest stop before we reach the Atlantic. We started out in Erin just 70 miles from our destination. The morning was cloudy so I didn’t get many photos. The Tennessee country side is extremely pleasant. Small farms, houses and forest dominate the landscape.
We had a lot of rolling hills to climb but they are not bad since it only takes a few cranks to get to the top and one gets to relax on the decent. I continued to ride with Team Colorado as we are getting to be well oiled machine in our pace line riding. Although once and a while they grumble about Ricky Bobby pulling to hard on the hills. I do this just to keep them honest and now they tend to continue to keep pulling instead of turning it over to me when we get to hills.
We had lunch on the banks of the Cumberland River and then rode into Nashville. For a few miles into town we followed a bike path on the river.
The last mile we had to go on the city streets to get to the hotel which was located in the center of downtown. We arrived before 1 pm which gave us plenty of time in the afternoon to explore the home of country music. Tomorrow I plan to see the country music hall of fame.
It is amazing that a 70 mile ride seems like nothing these days. It was another great ride. Life is great in America.
I hope you get a chance to check out the other photos from today on Flickr.
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