Thursday 9/06/05

When we woke this morning we didn't want to look outside to see if it was still raining. To our jo thouh it had eventually stopped although all our kit was still soaking. We had 60 miles to get to Old Town Sacramento which is to the west of the major metropolis. It was a real easy ride to Sacramento, all on a slight downhill gradient and after so much altitude training the oxygen rich air made it even easier. After being so high for so long it felt very strange coming back down to below 2000ft. Our heads were spinning all day long, both of us felt very strange. After we passed Folsom state prison (yes, the one Johnny Cash sang his famous song about) we hit the American River Bike Trail. This was a bicycle specifis path that snaked for 30 miles through the parkland that runs along a mile eaqch side of the river that splits Sacramento in two. It wqas really nice riding and we stopped half way at the University of California Sacramento campus for lunch. We slept well that night in a campsite just west of town knowing we only had one more full day of riding ahead!