Willard to Salt Lake City —95 mi, 153 km
Today we rode Willard to Salt Lake City. Everybody was aware that this would be a heavy day – 97 miles or 156 kilometers and, at the end of the day, two major climbs.
The night before Ed Witvoet (the leader of the tour) asked everybody to leave an hour earlier. Some people left at 6 a.m. already and I left at 6:45 a.m. The first 90 kilometers were flat and there was a bit of a head wind. We came soon in urban area with more buildings and trees, which eliminated the wind. The CRC church in Salt Lake City is close to the center of the city.
The church had prepared lunch for us. I didn’t stay long there and left at 11:45 a.m. for the hills.
The first hill was like Route Kenscoff in Haiti from Thomassin to Kenscoff, but the road was wider and there were many local cyclists, because of the weekend. On the summit of this hill, people from the CRC had set up a small booth and gave out power bars and Gatorade.
A little girl with the name Noel received us with a “mist”. We then went down through a valley with a water reservoir
and got on highway I-80. There we met the second hill. It was hard: the heat, biking on the shoulder of a 6-lane highway, and this hill, but by the grace of God and a lot of drinking I got to the top.
We passed through Park City, a town where the Winter Olympics has been held in the past, and where a lot of the ski-training still happens. Beautiful, like being in Switzerland. As a surprise there was another hill just before we got to the campgrounds. I was in camp by 4:30 p.m., and I am really thankful that it went so well for me.
The campground is at a lake and the view is gorgeous.
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