After riding with Conor I won’t be able to walk all day

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Bender intermission

Carrera de noche

Shutdown got DC acting up

Tomorrow I’m biking to Rome but honestly this ride absolutely destroyed me. That was an absurd amount of climbing. Plus some of the descents I couldn’t enjoy as much bc it was raining so I had to be careful. Also there was so much stuff in my bike I didn’t know what the balance was like. It was kind of a flex still being able to pass people on a climb with an additional 40 pounds on my bike. 
Tuscany is unbelievably, indescribably gorgeous, and there’s an insane cycling culture here. So many riders were on the road and they were all friendly. Even the quality of a lot of the roads were immaculate on the descents which was amazing. Not to mention the food is absolutely amazing. But I won’t lie, there were moments in this ride when I doubted my ability to make it to Orvieto. When it started to rain I could not stop shivering in the descents, and when I got like 60-70 miles in there was a point where I just sat down and realized that I had so much more to go and not a lot of willpower left. Honestly you just have to refuse to give up and that’s exactly what I did. This is my second hardest ride in this trip so I’m a bit worried for what’s to come, I guess I’ll just need to wake up earlier.

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After riding with Conor I won’t be able to walk all day

Evening Run

Bender intermission

Carrera de noche

Shutdown got DC acting up

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