70 days Till the Big Fix 2006

Wants and reality very rarely meet.

Yesterday(April 9) I decided to go for a ride in a cold drizzle out of an attempt to add a polish to a wonderful but coffee driven day. I wanted to started clocking miles in my goal for 1400 in the month of showers...

As much work was done as I could possibly do: No bees to catch, no note cards to fill out, no plants to identify. To cool for even mushrooms to rear their heads form the humus....camp was set and the cold was setting in to the bones untouched by the warmth of hot coffee in a metal cup!

1400 miles. Now just 1370 and I have the knowledge that the wall is only 30 miles away. Maybe zipping along a rolling down hill slope wasn't so bad but the last mile back I was almost walking. Nothing left... BONK.

I feel good today but it is raining even harder and my tail is in between my legs. I have about 60 days before the BIG FIX and I just bonked at mile 30... we are going to be riding 5 times that almost every day. I feel impending DOOM!

Tomorrow rain or shine - Bonk elixir and an update to polish tomorrow off with! A polish that was stolen form me some where in the cold yesterday.

Sorry no photos for awhile...
Ike