Luke & Adam's West to East Cycle Beast USA

wow! Yuma to Gila Bend, 120 miles in a massive 14 hours including breaks - before you start Nick it was up to 50C! As Adam didn't want to let me down, he picked up a puncture a mile and a half behind me (2 in the space of 4 days). This was a long straight ride down the interstate which again proved to be long, slow, hot, monotonous and have i mentioned hot! On arriving we simply crashed and burned. Day 4 was the leg from Gila Bend to Pheonix. This started well with us making good time and avoiding traffic on the freeway before Adam yet again picked up 2 punctures......i know he's going strong! Despite this we completed this 75 mile trip in 9 hours. The highlights here were that we were paid a visit by the police as someone had reported 2 cyclists cruising down the freeway and were worried for our safety....they were right it was seriously scary, as we sat only a couple of inches away from humungous lorries. After all that we set off from Pheonix at 4am this morning and have just reached Miami (No not in Florida), it's a little copper mining town in amongst the mountains (3,500 ft). This leg started smoothly but suddenly took a down turn as we hit inclines running for nearly 7 miles. On reaching what we thought was the top we were pleasantly greeted by signs stating that there was now a decline of 7% for approx 12 miles......they lied it continued to climb and climb. So having bored you senseless i'm signing out. Hang tough, no tears!