Ride 12/06/2023 Coast to Coast day 2

Day 2 on the coast to coast ride and what an eventful day it was. We had 66 miles to do today and it started 3 miles out with one of the party getting lost since they didn’t have a garmin for navigation and we dropped him on the first hill xD Things were fine for about another 2 miles before the event leader got a puncture and we stopped to assist. We made it fine to the first feed station and even lunch at 40 miles. It was not long after the third and final stop at mile 53 that the real fun began. We made it to mile 62 with 5 to go when Dave snapped his chain. Tony the ride leader stopped to fix it and it was then that the thunder storms hit and they were epic! Thankfully we had stopped outside someone’s house who offered their garage as shelter to try and fix the broken chain. Unfortunately we couldn’t fix the chain so we had to call for a pickup from Pete who was driving the support van. Dave got a lift to the hotel but we rode the last 5 miles in the rain to the hotel. Thankfully the rain had died down a bit so it wasn’t raining golf balls anymore and Pete had some rain jackets in the van that we could use to get to the hotel. So interesting day, 66 miles clocked up and a sedate pace of 15 mph, with probably the last 5 a bit faster