Voice Post: 2014 PMC Day 2: Wellfleet

[ornoth_cycling]

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

Okay, well, here I am in Wellfleet, with one section left of the ride. And it’s starting to sink in: (laugh) more the missing of Bobby Mac than the fact that it’s the last PMC. I’ve had certainly a lot more time to get used to the idea of a last PMC, and I wouldn’t have made the decision to stop if I wasn’t ready for it already. So we’ll enjoy that, but at the same time it’s also still a celebration of Bobby Mac and everything he did for the cycling community in Boston. He was just an incredible, marvelous man, and I can’t possibly begin to say enough about him, as was expressed earlier in my big blog post about him. So he’s definitely forefront in the mind, once I can think of anything but what’s on the immediate road in front of me and my aching body and so forth. And also it’s also the last segment of riding across the state. It’s the second time I’ve done it. It’s a big accomplishment in my book: a lot of hills, a lot of pushing the pedals. But it’s also been a good, worthy undertaking, as has the PMC in general. We’ll see. I’ll reach the finish line, but I won’t immediately post. I’ll probably wait a little bit; get some food and take a shower first, but I will do a voice post after I get into Provincetown, a little later, it’ll probably be mid-afternoon. But this will be a tough hour and a half of riding the last segment. Definitely feeling it, not just physically but also emotionally. That’s it; onward!