Last ride in Palm Springs!

Today was the longest ride of my life. A group of us rode instead of doing the criterium, which was an option. We rode from our house down to the Saltin Sea and then turned up into a place called Box Canyon. It was a 45 min ride from bottom to top. We averaged about 30 kp/h going up, it was a gradual, but hard climb because of the speed we were going at. We had a few close calls today with some dogs in some different neighborhoods. Some of us were sliding sideways with our brakes locked up, or riding on their front tire trying to steer out of the way. But we avoided the worst. We all thought today was going to be about 160 km or max 180 km. So we only brought food for about 5-5.5 hrs on the bike. By the time we turned around we were already at 105 km. which meant we would be at least 210km by the end of the ride. We took from different roads home, some quieter roads. In the end the ride was 217km. Which was longer than we all expected, but a good ride for the last day. Surprisingly no one cracked on the ride, we all made it home fine, tired, but fine. We packed our bikes and then headed out for mexican food with the coaches and all the guys. Tomorrow we all head home, back to snow and rain!