Long day of riding today. My first day where it has actually dawned on me that San Francisco is a long ways away. Usually I just think about the next town, but with a long ride today I started to realize that I have a lot of long days ahead.
Woke up at the Dreamcatcher's Hostel this morning. I had the top bunk. The guy below me was a grizzly bear last night. Snoring up a storm, a storm that fortunately woke himself up occasionally, giving me a window of opportunity to fall asleep before the thunder of his nasal cavitities returned. Breakfast of oatmeal with PBJ. Yum. One of my favorites. There really are so many things you can add to oatmeal.
Rolled out of Golden around 10am, after visiting the grocery store and buying 2 bananas and a giant bag of trail mix. The ride went well, a slow and then somewhat punctuated climb to Roger's Pass at the 75km halfway point, and then a pretty quick downhill (the first 40km) but the last 35km were grueling. It was obvious that my body was zapped of readily avialable energy and that fat metabolism (a slow process) was allowing me to continue along, but my legs felt like lead. Hopefully that lead turns into steel sometime soon. Lower back pain went away almost entirely with my minor seat adjustment but my neck is getting sore. Need to do some sort of stretching.
Roll into Revy and head to the McDonald's (free WiFi) and just my luck - a friend of a WS host has offered to let me stay the night. Which is great because it rained for the last 3 hours, I'm wet, relatively cold and although I had planned on camping I just know that it isn't going to happen. Very friendly family, Rob, Sylvia, Carlos and Ruby. Chicken Pot Pie for dinner, salad and then a popsicle.
Tomorrow is another longer day to Salmon Arm. It feels good to be exhausted and know that as soon as my head hits the pillow, game over.
Woke up at the Dreamcatcher's Hostel this morning. I had the top bunk. The guy below me was a grizzly bear last night. Snoring up a storm, a storm that fortunately woke himself up occasionally, giving me a window of opportunity to fall asleep before the thunder of his nasal cavitities returned. Breakfast of oatmeal with PBJ. Yum. One of my favorites. There really are so many things you can add to oatmeal.
Rolled out of Golden around 10am, after visiting the grocery store and buying 2 bananas and a giant bag of trail mix. The ride went well, a slow and then somewhat punctuated climb to Roger's Pass at the 75km halfway point, and then a pretty quick downhill (the first 40km) but the last 35km were grueling. It was obvious that my body was zapped of readily avialable energy and that fat metabolism (a slow process) was allowing me to continue along, but my legs felt like lead. Hopefully that lead turns into steel sometime soon. Lower back pain went away almost entirely with my minor seat adjustment but my neck is getting sore. Need to do some sort of stretching.
Roll into Revy and head to the McDonald's (free WiFi) and just my luck - a friend of a WS host has offered to let me stay the night. Which is great because it rained for the last 3 hours, I'm wet, relatively cold and although I had planned on camping I just know that it isn't going to happen. Very friendly family, Rob, Sylvia, Carlos and Ruby. Chicken Pot Pie for dinner, salad and then a popsicle.
Tomorrow is another longer day to Salmon Arm. It feels good to be exhausted and know that as soon as my head hits the pillow, game over.
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| You know you're in for a long haul when you see this sign. Unfortunately no other pictures cause I was riding in the rain all day. I'm sure you all know what clouds look like. |
Way to go Clayton! That was a long haul. I hope you get all the long days out of your system so it's fun short rides for me :)
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