Knowing that the forecast was was not promising, we had agreed on trying to get on the road by 7:15 this morning. It was not a good morning to sleep through my alarm and wake up at 6:52 am. Fortunately, I had organized well the previous evening, and my riding mates were not moving super fast. I grabbed some breakfast, took my bags to the truck, and we rode out at 7:25!
Once again, we were on a beautiful trail, and the first twenty miles were dry. After our traditional 20 mile break, usually a banana and some carbs for me, we rode in quite steady rain. At our lunch stop, mile 44 of a planned 66 mile ride into Columbus, everyone seemed quite happy that Ken and Nancy had figured out how to shuttle us in to out hotel without resorting to a UHaul.
The only pictures today are in my head, lovely phlox along the trail, even in the rain, and a killdeer doing a great broken wing act hopping away from the trail. I recognized the broken wing act, but didn’t remember that it was a killdeer until one of our bird watchers clued me in.
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