Every day that goes by, our 2014 Colorado tour becomes more memory. I’m surprised to feel saddened by that, since one of our intentions while there was to feed our wanderlust and tire ourselves out so that we would be at peace with settling back into our life in Washington, D.C.

Maybe that peace will come in September, but in the interim I’m left daydreaming about the two weeks when I felt small, invigorated, and satisfied.

Felkerino uploaded our routes to his Ride With GPS page, and I’m posting the overall image of our daily profiles along with a link that provides more details about each day’s ride.

I wish I could figure out an easy way to sew the routes together so I could display it as one big loop as well as by days, but seeing it in segments is okay. UPDATE: Thanks to Ronnie, who commented below, I was able to put our routes into one image.

Through this post I have an overall record of our trip and I keep the good memories flowing! Again, many thanks to all of you for taking an interest and encouraging us throughout our time in Colorado.

Day 1: Boulder to Kremmling (this is also the Trail Ridge Traipse RUSA Permanent), 150 Miles

• “Facing My Inner Fraidy Cat: 150 Miles From Boulder to Kremmling“

Day 2: Kremmling to Carbondale, 87 Miles

• “90 Miles From Kremmling to Carbondale“

Day 3: Carbondale to Paonia, 62 Miles

• “What Goes Up from Carbondale Must Come Down to Paonia“

Day 4: Paonia to Ouray, 100 Miles

• “Everything Weighs Something, Even Ambition: 100 Miles to Ouray“

Day 5: Rest Day, 0 Miles

Day 6: Ouray to Durango, 75 Miles

• “Bike Tour Magic: 83 Miles from Ouray to Durango“

Day 7: Durango to Pagosa Springs, 65 Miles

• “Hot Hot Rollers to Pagosa Springs“

Day 8: Pagosa Springs to Creede, 68 Miles (First half of route here. Second half is here)

• “Wolf Creek Pass, I Think I Love You“

Day 9: Creede to Gunnison, 106 Miles

• “Creede to Gunnison: 106 Big Bicycling Miles“

Day 10: Gunnison to Leadville, 105 Miles

• “Las Cosas Se Arreglan: Cottonwood Pass and a Broken Crankarm“

Day 11: Rest/Backwards Pedal and Crankarm Day

Day 12: Leadville to Winter Park, 83 Miles

• “Another Day, Another Mountain Pass in Colorado“

Day 13: Winter Park to Boulder, 68 Miles

• “Rollins Pass on Tandem“

Number of riding days: 11

Total days: 13

Total miles: 969 (plus some additional miles riding around towns for meals and miscellaneous errands)

Average mileage per day, including rest days: 74.5 Miles

Average mileage per day, not including rest days: 88 Miles

Number of Unforgettable Moments of Awesome: Too many to count

And now, we return to randonneuring, running, and planning “future tour– at least, until I finish culling the rest of my tour photos.