Morning Trail Run

Morning Ride

Climbing at G1 w/ Stefan

Lunch Ride

It was cold and overcast all day, but it was dry. I got on my rode bike for the first time since day three and stayed in the big ring all day, even over the rolling hills. Started off on city streets, then a great bike path, which turned to gravel (of course). Then I rode a quiet street to another nice bike path and at ten miles out, I got on Montana highway 200 and stayed on it the rest of the way. Most of the time I had a great big shoulder to ride on and cars were giving me a wide berth. There were sections towards the end with little shoulder, though. Cars gave me a wide berth when they could, but if ongoing traffic synced with their passing of me, it was tight. This only happened a few times, though.

Saw Sheri twice on the ride. The second time was way past where we planned to meet. I screwed up and went by the turn we were to meet in. It was off the highway a bit and I was too lazy and thought there might be another entrance to town. When there wasn't I went on. This caused Sheri a lot of stress as neither of us had a connection. She assumed I had gone by and went on, but not far enough to catch me before she assumed I'd had a mechanical and went back for me. Ugh. Bad me. And just when we couldn't communicate. In those situations I *must* stick to the plan. Lesson learned.

I got the 83 miles done a little after 1 p.m. We killed an hour eating lunch n a folksy restaurant and then checked into the Three Bears Motel. Very quaint and friendly. Glad to finally get a sizable day done. It had been four days since I'd gone over 60 miles.

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