After being flagged off at around 8 am in the morn­ing yes­ter­day (dec 16), it’s been around close to 270+ kms of cycling upto now for the TFN rid­ers.

On Day 1, we made it from Ban­ga­lore to Mysore via the National High­way. It wasn’t the most pleas­ant stretch in terms of traf­fic, but I was just glad that I could get this part over with. With trucks and other high speed vehi­cles all mov­ing at break neck speeds and honk­ing con­tin­u­ously, it’s not really con­ducive to cyclists. But after lunch on the road, we reached our des­ti­na­tion — the com­fort­able Hotel Regaalis and even got some time to take in some sight­see­ing in the evening. 

Day 2 was an early morn­ing start — we began around 720 am from Mysore and headed towards Has­san. A rather rolling ter­rain, which meant that our mus­cles got a big work­out ped­alling up and down for many kilo­me­ters. The only pos­i­tive today was the great weather — it started driz­zling in the morn­ing and then got cloudy till around noon. It was only after our lunch stop (at around 95 kms from Mysore) that the sun came out! This also meant that we had to pedal the hard­est stretch (long, long climbs!) with the sun shin­ing down on us! 

I was just glad to reach the hotel (South­ern Star, Has­san) and have a really hot shower to relax the worn out muscles. 

Gau­rav is live blog­ging (as long as he has con­nec­tion :-)
http://geekydood.wordpress.com/category/TFN/

Peevee has pic­tures
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tourofnilgiris/

Twit­ter updates
http://twitter.com/ynaras
http://twitter.com/anitabora

Some pic­tures from Day 1 and 2 on the road.

More pics:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/anita/sets/72157622893897641/