From sunburn to frostbite!

It was a great day to be a yooper! As we were on the start line the temperature at the pass was 2C! It was raining hard and everyone was worried about being too cold. In the back of our minds we knew the descent would be the coldest. As we neared the top there was fresh snow on the ground. Luckily it has only been since April that we had snow so it wasn't such a big deal. That and it must have been 5C by the time we reached the top. We were relieved to be over the top but that was only the first 30km of a 95km stage! It wasn't long and there was a group of 20-30 riders flying down the valley. Kind of like a road race on mountain bikes which many would argue is not fun at all, but there is a certain amount of adrenaline when you are going nearly 50 mph into switchbacks. It's kind of scary!

It was a good day though. We were 81st today which should have us somewhere around 90th after three stages.