Day 18 - Rincon Point, CA - Will Rogers State Park, CA

Day 18 - Rincon Point, CA - Will Rogers State Park, CA

Bike - Specialized Roubaix
Day's run - 66.2 miles
Total elapsed miles - 1207.1
Time in saddle - 4:12
Average for day - 15.7
Max for day - 33.5

     As can be seen from the above stats, today was my shortest day since Day 6 and the fastest day of the ride.  Thanks are owed to the general flatness of the route, excepting the third hour with some coastal climbs, and the tail winds, general except for some stretches in the second hour.
     Saw the "Entering Los Angeles" sign a couple of miles before the ride's-end and rendezvous-with- Bob site between Malibu and Santa Monica.  It's all over but the final stretch, of about 40 miles, the first third or so of which will be on beachfront bike trails, into Long Beach, and the ceremonial wheel dipping, followed by a final ride to and photo event at my 1961 Long Beach home.   Given traffic in greater L.A., I may beat Bob in.  That makes tonight the last motel night of the ride (On Ventura Blvd, in the San Fernando Valley).  Hooray for that part, too!         
     Plan to get an early start tomorrow so we can have lunch at an old haunt in Long Beach.  My daughter, who I told two weeks ago that I would be arriving chez elle on Sunday, left today for the family condo on Lake Mead and will return Sunday afternoon, so I will have their Newport Beach house to myself Friday and Saturday for rest and recuperation, poolside and elsewhere.

A demain

Robert