Tour de USA | Stage 17, 1000 Total Miles, Tucumcari, NM

Another great day, a little warm, but a great day, 110 miles, and we hit a total of 1000 miles early in today’s ride.  This was the first major milestone that we have reached.  Today is the last day in New Mexico, and we started coming down from the high desert, although we are still relatively high, above 4000 ft of elevation in Tucumcari, NM,

I rode today with my friend Barry, below from NJ, CA, and currently living in Venice, FL.  

The road was wide open today, and we also saw the terrain change as the day went on, early on were pastures.

Because we have been in the high desert for several days, with a lot of rolling hills, and climbing mountains, we lost more altitude than we gained today, and here is one of the views that we saw as we descended and picked up more heat as well.

Here are some of the hills that we climbed, and notice the changing terrain.

This was a big climb, although it doesn’t look like it in the picture, this is over a mile long, with a pitch of around 8%.

This was pained on the road at the top!


Here is the map, and notice the state lines, we will be in the panhandle of TX tomorrow, and then into OK the following day.

Here is today’s video with pictures, Check out Tour de USA | Stage 17, 1000 total miles, Tucumcari, NM https://www.relive.cc/view/1602497736

A little warm this afternoon.


Here are some of the data points from today’s ride.  We climbed a little less than yesterday, but lost a lot of total elevation.  I was on my bike for 6 hours today, and 110 miles.  Nice average speed.




Tomorrow is another long day, around 96 miles.

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