Gateway Arch

Lunch Run

Afternoon Ride

cycling is better than horses

Evening Walk

I set out towards the Arch along what turned out to be a pretty industrial route, and didn't quite make it. The weather is so odd here; cool today, but so humid, the sky buried in fog, such that everything is a weird kind of damp. It feels a bit like Seattle. I will not complain though because I only needed light gloves and was warm enough in a long sleeve thermal jersey. The temp is supposed to drop 50° tomorrow. 

Near the end of Monte Cristo the count takes Maximilian to Normandy from Paris with a series of relayed horses which led me to look into the feasibility of this. It turns out that while horses can sprint at ~50 kmh, they can only maintain this for a few minutes, and their average travel speed is in fact a glacial *10 kmh*, i.e., not that much faster than walking, whereas a bike can easily be ridden at 25 kmh for hours and way higher than that in a peloton or with training. I was surprised to learn this and it increased my appreciation for the mechanical amplification a bike provides.

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