Thursday 28 July 2011 End of week 1
We are a week into our tour and out of the major hills for a while. Our bodies have accepted the fact that they need to deliver us a full day of cycling without complaining. The tender hands feet and the all important rump pains are subsiding.
We are a week into our tour and out of the major hills for a while. Our bodies have accepted the fact that they need to deliver us a full day of cycling without complaining. The tender hands feet and the all important rump pains are subsiding.
Our mileage is always determined by where we can find a place to sleep that night.
A cheerleading competition in Ohio this week has sucked up many of the hotel rooms along our route. We had to schedule a couple of shorter mileage days followed by a 125 miler to make things work. Nobody is complaining about the two short days. The longet day, well lets just call it "training".
Tim who was having some morning fueling problems at first has been able to eat more during the day. You have to keep the engine fueled to get in the miles. He is powering up to his normal strong pace. It will take us 10 days to get into the groove.
The morning forecast really looked terrible for us. Radar showed bands of heavy rain moving west to east along our route. We left the motel with all our rain gear in place. The skies were dark and it was already sprinkling. It really sucks to spend the day on a bike with rain falling on you.
Just a few miles down the road the rain stopped. All morning the sky looked like it could open up at any moment but the roads stayed dry. By midday the sun came out and the temperature peaked at 96 degrees. We were happy not to have rain in our face and our butts wet.
A software crash has taken Ken’s GPS out for the last couple days. A call to Garmin was made and the decision that a reload of the mapping software will be needed. The large file took nearly two hours to download over the internet. It appears that his GPS is back in business.
Nice room tonight
Lotsa of good Food!
84 Miles
4056 Feet of Climbing
Temperature 75-96 degrees
"A software crash has taken Ken’s GPS out for the last couple days. A call to Garmin was made and the decision that a reload of the mapping software will be needed."
ReplyDeleteKen - maybe FedEx can ship you a new disc ... it will get there ..... never?