Voice Post: 2007 PMC: Barnstable

[ornoth_cycling]

The following is a transcription of a phone post that originally appeared in my main journal, here.

Hello, it is 7:19 so that was a quick leg. We are now at a total of 136 miles and it is 69 degrees out; so it actually was down to 64 this morning. But I am now at the Barnstable water stop, which is just after where I crashed out back in the 2003 ride. And met up with Charlie and his buddies and have been having a fairly relaxing warm-up for the first 15 or 20 miles of the ride so far. Looks like it's gonna start warming up pretty fast, so gonna go get some ice and some Gatorade and hit the road again. But we're now firmly on the cape, having started going over the crazy sand dunes and up and down the little hills. but they're not bad because you can just shoot 'em. You can get enough speed on the downhill to cover the uphill, and do it again and again and again. I think that's it for here. I'm gonna go grab some food while I can, and hit the road again. Next stop will be from Brewstah, at the state park there, which is before the first portion of our ride that hits the Cape Cod Rail Trail, as opposed to the Cape Cod Canal rail trail that we were on earlier, or actually last night. That was actually a good ride; going up the canal path in the evening is very beautiful, and going over the Bourne bridge is just crazy; it's a very high bridge. But that's it; I'll talk to you again soon.