[trip-list] Tailwinds

[drewish@katherinehouse.com]

HUMBUG MT. STATE PARK 07/27/02 - I just felt off all day but thanks to massive tailwinds all day I made 84 miles. 

The morning was very enjoyable. At several points the bike route diverges from US-101 to avoid busier parts of towns along the way. Whoever picked the detour roads really seemed to like hills. I spent a good chunk of the morning pumping up some burly ones. Three things kept me smiling the entire time: instead of looking at urine bottles on the side of the road I watched hundreds of different colors of flowers roll by, the tailwind doing most of the work, live folk music on Jefferson Public Radio.

Between a pounding headache and a fender that kept breaking the afternoon wasn't as fun. The former was corrected by downing a ton of water. The later was halfway remedied with some bike spokes I picked up at a shop I passed and bending them to look like fender struts. As the saying goes, it ain't pretty but it works.

andrew

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