Day 2

Here it is, Day 2 in Le Tour D'Awesome. Our trek begins in Taylor's Falls, and as we say goodbye to Minnesota and hello to Wisconsin, we see our only real climb of the day. Starting around the 2 mile mark we bottom out on our mini descent (30' of elevation!) and we start climbing. Over the next three miles we put in a ridiculous climb of 235 feet of elevation, topping out at about 1008 feet about sea level! Alpe_d'Huez*, the Tour D'Awesome is not. By the time we get to the cabin destination, we'll have pedaled about 58 miles in a day and over 100 in two days.









* The most famed climb of the Tour de France, it has 21 hairpin switchbacks that kill a riders rhythm as he attempts to climb a mere 3642 feet over 8.6 miles at an average gradient of 8.1%. Knee burner, to say the very least. Lance did it in about 37 mins in 2004. Wow.