New Smyrna Beach

Great riding today. Temperature registered 99 on the hot road most of the afternoon. My legs were feeling stronger already so was able to push harder. Bob was happy about that! In order to keep the captain and stoker (official names of tandem riders) working equally hard, we wear heart rate monitors. Yesterday I had to struggle to keep mine up but today we were both consistently around 140 except for hills. The monitors also calculate calories burned at the end of the day. Hopefully, our out of shape winter bodies will soon reflect the thousands of burned calories.
Darlene, as you would expect, no matter which way the road curved we had headwinds! It really slows you down so although we tried to keep our pace up to 13 - 15 mph, our average ended up to be only 11. It's going to be long, long days if we constantly encounter headwinds.
Talked to Penny today. She is still in Atlanta but will be joining us on Saturday. She is making her final arrangements. Can't wait to meet everyone in St. Augustine.
Supper tonight consisted of trail mix. We couldn't bring ourselves to sit on that bike again to travel back into town.
Monica wins the award for emailing baby pictures so far. Aubrey is in second. That means grandpa Bob would like to see Lexi, Jackson and Miriam too. Kate, I want to watch and hear about how Landyn is growing too. Thanks for staying with us on this adventure of a lifetime. Love you all!