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[ornoth_cycling]

Lots of things to talk about this week, not all good.

I've started my fundraising, and am presently at $435. That's slightly ahead of where I was last year at this time, but not up to where it ought to be. I've had a lot of people delaying or reducing their donations this year, and I haven't had any luck with the posters I put up. It's a little discouraging, but hopefully things will pick up over time.

Wednesday I had the first ride I ever had to abort. Although I was already sensing that I was weakened from overtraining, I'd planned to ride to Gloucester and back, about 80 miles, but in the 95-degree weather I started suffering heat exhaustion about 30 miles from home. Now, I'm an exceedingly proud person, and calling for help is completely humiliating, but I had to admit that I really needed it. I wound up limping to Jeanie's house, where I took a cold shower, sat in front of her A/C, then was driven home. Still, I enjoyed tooling around Gloucester, and did get 70 miles in...

On a positive note, I've surpassed several mileage "milestones", as it were. I've done more than 100 miles per week for five of the last six weeks, and have biked 1500 miles since October. I am also a day or two shy of passing 500 total hours on my bike (since October 2000), and have ridden over 7000 miles in that same time period. Of course, about a month from now I'll have eclipsed 7500...