Tell me why I hate Mondays (Mondays post...)

So after a storming two days of cycling through the mountains and then smashing out 110 miles in a day we thought we'd take it a little easy today and just do a quick 75 miles from Lovelock to Winnemucca, aiming to be there by lunchtime....

Well that was the plan, what actually happened was we had an awful sweaty nights sleep in a thorny camp site in the desert and were aching all over from the previous two days abuse. To make things worse there was a serious headwind blowing right at us which slowed us down from our usual 12-15mph to an agonizing 7-9mph, not fun. Demoralized and aching from hammering it into a wall of wind we rolled into Mill City (its not a city, more of a service station) for some much needed food and a rest. Went to a place that apparently does 'great home cooked food' and that would have been true if home cook food meant pre-cooked microwaved spaghetti and weird looking meatballs!!

We set off again around 12pm into the midday heat (not part of the plan) and surprisingly it we didn't find it that hot (found out later that it was above 35 degrees C), probably because we were too obsessed with other things such as our growing list of niggling pains so far...

Jack - Pains in all areas of the bum, bad knees, been bitten to shit, crap cut on ankle which rubs, bad hands and a numbness in little finger that won't go away

Ben - Bad feet, bad hands, ridiculous sun tan and a sore bum

Tom - Sore back, sore nose from glasses rubbing on it, bad feet and bad hands

The cycling through Nevada is still pretty boring and we will continue to be on the same road (the I-80) for the next four days! Jacks passing the time by counting tires on trucks (saw a 20-wheeler today, on the look out for a 22-wheeler), discussions have also revolved around why anyone would live in Nevada, how on earth people first settled in the West and a special topic of the day was whether Jack had followed through after a consistent bout of farting.....upon further inspection there appeared to be no soiling of said cycling shorts.

We rocked up into Winnemucca eventually around 3pm, 3 hrs longer than we thought it would take! After a quick visit to McDonalds where we had a nice chat with a family who thought we were a bit mental but didn't look it we went to find a campsite.

The Winnemucca RV Park is where we ended up and its a really nice place, possibly the best place we have stayed so far due to the fact that it has grass, shade and a free shuttle to a cheap local restaurant where we plan to visit later on once Tom stops flirting with the old lady behind the counter.....some things never change.

P.S. Sorry about the poor grammar and spelling in previous posts. We are ashamed of ourselves and endeavor to do better for our avid fans around the world.