Sept 24 Day 12

Sept. 24
Day 12
Dinner was Mexican food right next door which was good a thing as it was raining when we walked over. The restaurant was having free salsa dancing night and they spent sometime trying to recruit David and me to try. We did not and went back to the motel Dave was dosing off while the TV was on. The rain finally stopped while we slept, the total acculation of rain was more than 7 inches in some parts of the state.

City and river veiw of St Paul

I fell asleep quickly even though a little sore from the fall. In the morning my legs were not greatly swollen. But I must be grumpy as my shorts were wet and pantyhose were still more than damp but less than sopping wet. I wore the wettest stuff today so they would dry while I wore them and they would not get the other stuff wet.

With great reluctance we agreed to stop at a McDonalds for breakfast. I therefore did not my Caffeine fix with breakfast and therefore was grumpy all morning. At lunch we stopped and had more coffee and as the saying goes, “Cheer up thing could be worse, so I was more cheerful and things got worse.” We hit road construction and that required that we hike beside the road for almost a mile. I was not happy again and I taken a right to be just pissy tomorrow until I have decided that it makes up for the problems I have had for the last couple of days.

We biked to Hastings MN today and covered a distance of 44 miles, we would have done more except that Dave is good at figuring out where we were when we left the hotel. We would have done even less if I had of listened to him, but instead we followed the route and did some extra PUDs (for those of you who do hike this translates to Pointless Up and Downs) Dave pointed this out to me after we completed the last PUD while I was trying to breath and he smiled while he was resting waiting for me. I hope my breathing will become more deep as I progress.

David broke a spoke again late in the day so tomorrow we hope to have it fixed at the fishing store that does bike repair on the side.

Weird stuff on the road

Circular saw straight cut angle
BBQ grill warming rack
more than 12 electrical connectors
4 to 8 deers on one side of the road
A tree across the road (dead fall)

Thankful for Today
The temperature did not rise above 59F during the ride all day and the wind was gusting to 30 miles per hours. The good news was the wind was only into our face for about 1/3 of the ride so I am grateful for having a tail wind during the rest of the ride. It was such a good tail wind at time that we topping hills doing 10-12 miles per hours. Then on several downhills we peaked at over 25 miles per hours once I even saw 33 miles per hours. That what I call a triple a Wahoo call out.
Love and Kiisses to all