Post Biking

8:30 am

                Not written it quite a bit. Blame it on Biking. Before the trip, all I was doing was Training. Long bike rides that towards the end were taking me all day, and besides that left me exhausted. Then the Ride itself, which was basically:

Get up at 5:30 (to the sound of “zip zip” as others opened tent flaps)

Pack up stuff, fold up tent, haul all to the baggage trucks

Breakfast

Morning report on the day’s ride

Start biking – say 7 am

Bike bike bike

Morning break say around 9

Bike bike bike

Another break of some sort around 11 or 12

Bike bike bike

Afternoon break say around 1

Bike bike bike

Arrive at Tent City say around 3

Get luggage from truck

Set up tent (unless I was lucky enough to be slow, in which case K arrived well enough ahead of me to already have set up the tent and gotten luggage!)

Collapse in exhaustion for a while

Supper at 5

Sometimes go out for a beer or whatever until about 8

Bed.

Do it all again.

                So that was basically our week, interspersed with lots of socializing, since after all there were 500 other bikers and we all had an obvious topic of conversation, so there was no paucity of chatting. Sounds a bit dreary I suppose, but in fact it was tons of fun.

                And then after our ride, it took about a week to somewhat recover and get back to some sort of normalcy, and I have been trying to not go cold turkey, but have been getting in rides when I could. Yesterday I took off for Easthampton late in the day which was a very nice ride. The best thing is that a ride that would have left me beat and worthless before the trip now feels like a piece of cake. I want to make an effort to get in some workout type rides, with hills, so even if they are short they push me a little. Part of the training goal was to get used to being on a bike for 50 miles. I can do that, but it does take a good chunk of time. Better now to work on shorter rides but hillier.

                So with that in mind, I am going out this morning down to Belchertown, then back to Station rd, up through Amherst Woods, up around Echo Hill and back home. There are some decent hills in there.  Then I hope to get home and SPIN!

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