Final Destination, Arriving in Los Angeles!

I knew it would be a hot day in Kingman, as we were in the middle of the Mojave desert, only about a 100 miles from Las Vegas. 

So I went for a bike ride relatively early in that morning, and the route was nothing less then the Mother Road, or the U.S. Route 66! 

One of the most famous, if not "the most" famous route in the world!

Historically, it was a very important way since it's construction in 1926, served as a major path for those who migrated west. The US 66 Route used to connect Chicago to Los Angeles, as in the following map.

I did a really small section of it and it was pretty cool to see some of the old buildings restored in that old fashion way. Not to forget that over that route was built the first motel and the first McDonald's of the world!

Also known as the Will Rogers Highway, the route 66 had it's apex on the fifties and sixties, where many movies have shown the young people driving their Cadillacs and Harleys towards the California sunny weather! (They didn't know how cool it would be driving an Isuzu!! hahaha)

The route 66 underwent many improvements and realignments over its lifetime, becoming officially removed from the United States Highway System in 1985. Nowadays, as Historic Route 66, a few sections were adopted and maintained by several states, like this stretch at Kingman.

A nice part of my wkout was to ride very close to a huge train, I was getting excited to race against it, but on this time I held myself back! haha

Ciclismo: 37km - 1h22min

The Isuzu was in charge of the long stretch of the day, and we drove 320 miles to get to my friend Bobby's house. Who was really kind of hosting us during our stay in LA.

So with no lazyness we made the trip in about 6 hours, just stopping once to eat, and another time for fuel. We missed the Colorado and Utah's mountains, as this part of trip was very of monotonous, plus it was very hot. We knew we were getting in LA as we approched palm trees and a big jammed traffic!! hahaha

Reaching the end of our 1340 miles journey, passing through rain, deserts, mountains, parks and more parks, all the way with not stopping to workout!! Stated on the posts I did another 4.3 miles swimming, 71 miles biking and 13 miles running, no that bad for a recovering week!

On Monday the training routine went back to it normal volume, and soon I will be posting about the races that followed in the next weeks!

Click here to go to the first post of this trip from Boulder to LA!