Who builds a city on a 6% grade?!

I'm at a place that started as a mining town. Getting around is quite difficult by bike. It sucks because the RV park is at the top of town while the food and stuff is over a quarter mile away.

Today started as a good change of pace from the last few hard days. It was nice and easy all morning. I think I overdid it though because my right calf got quite sore and stiff about halfway through. I pressed for speed because I hadn't had a stretch that easy for that long (40 miles) for quite some time. So now I'm sporting my compression tights and taking in lots of protein (these drinks are nasty).

Of course I developed the sore calf right before the very difficult climb at the end. Oof. I'm pretty sure it'll heal up by tomorrow which is an easy day anyway (mostly downhill without any steep terrain). It's already feeling better than it did.

I passed the group of two again. They were just starting a rest when I caught up with them and I was interested in pushing on because I was making good speed and I would run into a water problem if I stopped for too much or went much slower. I was a little agressive this morning when packing water into the bike: kinda stupid thing to do when you've got 70 miles of desert ahead of you. Oops.

I'm actually a little worried about them because we had the same destination and it's 8:40 as I write this and they haven't showed up. I'll send a text a some point but reception has been terrible throughout Nevada. They've camped at the side of the road before (which is perfectly legal in most of Nevada) and they're usually very well supplied. They're probably fine.

Got a couple of easy days ahead of me. Woohoo :) I'm in Austin, NV after 70 miles.