Weekly Newsletter: March 17th-23rd, 2025

This week, Keith started ramping up his riding training in preparation for the upcoming 2025 Tour Divide. We also checked out a local fast-casual Chinese food restaurant. 😋

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Food on the Camino: Highlights and What to Expect

Food was one of the major attractions for walking the Camino de Santiago. Lattes, pastries, cured meats, cheeses, seafood, and the opportunity to try new things— this is what my dreams are made of!

Keith and LindseyLindsey Huster

Keith's last cold weather ride? 🥶 🚵‍♂️

The weather in Utah has been erratic to say the least. Daytime high temperatures have been fluctuating down to 30°F (-1°C) and upwards of 60°F (15.6°C). These cold temperatures have forced Keith to continue his outdoor training rides as if it were the middle of Winter. 🥶 Thankfully, these cold temperatures seem to be coming to a close and more mild, spring-like temperatures are in the forecast. 😎

The cold temperatures, and a slight head cold, 🤧 haven't stopped Keith from getting in the time on his bike that he needs to prepare his body for the demands of the 2025 Tour Divide. Keith also worked in a weightlifting session along with an indoor ride to maintain his base strength.

Dinner at Teri Gao 🍛 😋

This week, we decided to have some classic Americanized Chinese food... you know, the good stuff that you grew up craving. We opted for dinner at Teri Gao Asian Cafe in Provo, UT. This simple, no-frills establishment offers a wide variety of classic American-Chinese comfort foods including an assortment of teriyaki meals, sesame chicken, etc.

We started our meal off with... dessert! 🍩 Teri Gao also specializes in mochi-style donuts. We ordered and shared the cinnamon and sugar donut. The dough was so delicious; crispy on the outside and slightly underbaked and gooey on the inside.

For our main meals, Keith ordered the sesame chicken and Lindsey ordered the beef and shrimp teriyaki. Both meals arrived with mounds of meat and rice! There was so much food that we both had leftovers to take home with us. Our meals were delicious and satisfied our cravings for delicious, old-school Chinese takeout.

Lindsey helped out a friend 🏥 🚕

One of our friends had a minor surgery scheduled this week and needed a ride to and from the hospital. Lindsey, offered to be her shuttle driver for the day. Lindsey picked her up the morning of the surgery, drove her to the hospital, and then headed to Sugar House Coffee, a nearby coffee shop, to work on her next blog post.

Later that afternoon, Lindsey headed back to the hospital to pick up our friend and drive her home. They also grabbed lunch at Waffle Love. Lindsey then stayed with her until her significant other arrived to take over. What a nice thing to do for a friend in need. ❤️

Ramping up training 🥵 🚵‍♂️

The 2025 Tour Divide is only 3 months away! It's time for Keith to start focusing more and more of getting lots of hours in the saddle. Thankfully, the weather is starting to warm and several of the lower-elevation singletrack trails and forest service roads are starting to open again. Training is so much more enjoyable when you can break up the monotony of riding the same paved routes all the time. 😄

This week, Keith got a much needed singletrack refresher course at our local Valley Vista Trail System in Pleasant Grove, UT. Keith rode roughly 15 miles (24 kilometers) from our house to the trailhead. He then made two full laps of the trails, first descending the XC-style Cowley's Curse trail followed by a descent of the DH-style Cowley's Cure trail.

Keith then made one last climb to the top of the trail system so that he could take the gravel route further north towards American Fork Canyon. From there, Keith merged back onto the paved Murdock Canal Trail as he continued his route towards the Point of the Mountain. Upon reaching the far point of his route, Keith turned around and headed back to retrace his route home.

On his way home, Keith had the opportunity to enjoy one last Valley Vista descent down the DH-style Hard Rock/The Pit trails. Keith then made a quick stop at the Wade Springs trailhead before finishing his route back home. All in all, this ride covered 68.4 miles (110 kilometers) with 4,050 feet (1,234 meters) of elevation gain.

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Lindsey is continuing her work on the post series from our three-week adventure along the Camino De Santiago, Portuguese Route! Those posts are being published as she has time. We also have several prior trips that we haven't yet shared, so be sure to subscribe to our blog if you haven't done so already.

We hope that you are enjoying our newsletters. Spring is officially here! Do you have any spring break plans coming up? Let us know in the comments section below.👇 💬