Tl;Dr: tough riding & huge elevation: take 2 days.
The route distance is fairly low: 78 miles. But it’s almost 7k of elevation – by far the biggest elevation per segment, and it tops 10k feet at the pass.
And… Reports are pretty consistent that the roads are really bad..
Given the condition of the Laurel & Hardy – doing this in a day seems very unrealistic. So split it up.
Looks like there’s an informal camp ground about 25 miles (and several thousand feet of elevation in. That puts me way up the hill for day 2. And if 25 miles seems like not enough, primitive camping is allowed pretty much everywhere in the Santa Fe forest.
So – leave early, plan to hike-a-bike a lot, and go as far up hill as possible. Maybe Day 2 can mostly be down-hill (the roads still don’t sound like much fun).
I could stay in Cuba and recover more (Garmin says I need something like 70 hours of recovery), but the longer I wait the worse the weather gets. Tomorrow is supposed to be clear, but 70% chance of thunderstorms on Wed. With luck I can be down in Abiquiu by the time they start. Thursday is also stormy, sounds like a nice rest day.
Laurel & Hardy (my saddle sores) are somewhat better after a couple days off wash board roads – really not looking forward to rough roads again
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