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Trans America Cycling Day 21 - Sanderson, TX to Comstock, TX

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The link to today's route and statistics is found here . Today was probably the hardest day of riding of the tour so far.  Most of the 89 miles was into a headwind, peaking at about 15 mph.  There also were plenty of extra long dips to negotiate, some a mile or two in length.  To compound matters, because the wind slowed us down, we were riding in the late afternoon sun and heat.   At the first SAG stop there were happy faces, before the riding conditions deteriorated Climbing up the far side of a long dip, one of very many on our route today Another difficulty was the rough surface of Texas chip and seal, which will often be referred to as chipseal in the blog.  Instead of rolling smoothly, the bicycle wheels go bumpety bump down the road and loose good road contact.   Some Texan cyclists have described it to us as chunkseal, which in the rough areas is a better description than chipseal.  All in all the chipseal that we rode on today was not too terribly rough