Introduction.

I live in a fantastic cycling destination - western Colorado. As wonderful as the riding is in my area, I find it hard to push myself to do long training rides in preparation of touring. I definitely feel the benefit of putting in back to back 50 mile days before a tour, but it is so easy to cut those rides short.

Thus came the decision to do a training tour. Instead of forcing myself to do those long days around home, I'd ride them on tour!

I feel as if I'm selling this tour short by calling it a training tour. But that is how it came about, wanting to be prepared for the big tour this summer and not being bored while training for it. I had wanted to revisit northern New Mexico since our ride there with Ken, Jim, and Genny. Hwy 64 into Tres Piedras is top notch cycling. I loved staying at the Casa Benavides in Taos. I am some sad about not getting a layover day there, but I had trouble keeping the route down to seven days. I think there will be a longer tour in this area in my near future!

Spring training was tough this year. We had far too much rain and cold. This day was shorts weather. Yay!

Here is a link to our previous NM tour:

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