June 5 - Avery to Bowling Green, OH (63 miles)

 This was a super tough day with direct headwinds the entire ride today anywhere from 15mph upwards to 25-30 mph gusts.  We used our climbing gears much of the day just to get thru - very psychologically challenging and physically draining.

We looked up the wind charts for the rest of Ohio and Indiana and basically they are very cyclical - mostly calm until around 9-10 am as the heat starts coming on.  The wind peaks at about 1pm and doesn't really die down until about 5-6pm.  We agreed that we need to start our days about 3 hours earlier and get on the road by about 5:30am.  If we do this while riding on these flat roads, we should be averaging over 12 mph and should be able to complete an average day by about noon.  

This was probably the best part of the day... going to this coffee shop.  We didn't quite understand the misery in store for us - hence the innocent smiles :)