Well it was a poor day for miles but an overall pretty great day. Not a lot great happened I guess now that I think about it:
-The bakery i wanted to go to in the morning was out of business (i did good another one though)
-I mismanaged my water consumption so was riding for about 10 miles very thirsty.
-The local bike ship couldn't replace my wheel so I had to pay for another fix.
-Due to the wheel fiasco, I was only riding during the heat of the day
I did find a nice little corner store that made some mean fried chicken though. On top of that everyone was friendly and asking me where I was going to. One guy asked me confusingly, "Hey man, is there any money in what you're doing? 'Cause I see a bunch of guys like you come through here and I'm thinking, maybe they know something we don't". No kind stranger, there is no money in this.
I also have a nice campsite and made the most ghetto dinner possible. I bought my groceries at essentially a " Canadian tire " type store, somewhere you would buy a microwave oven and some bleach. Their produce section was just a couple of five pounds bags of onions. Bought some frozen chicken and biscuit mini sandwiches and a can of country gravy. Heat it up and put it in my mouth. It was something, I don't think it was incredible but maybe it is full of the energy I need. Just maybe.
Best part of the day though, maybe the best part of my life to this point, was hearing an old southern man talk about ribs. I was in the town gas station and this older man asked where I was going. Blah blah blah, I asked him about the campsite in town. He told me I won't have a problem finding a space but if I was here last week maybe I would because there was a cookout in town. Then, in the way only a true man from the south could say it, he said, "some cookout though, ribs that would fall off the bone". It sounded more like " ribs dat wood fawwl off da bowne", amazing. I hope to one day be that relaxed about ribs in my life.
A storm is brewing so I'm going to try and beat it out and get an early start. It will be bringing a headwind at me so getting the miles could be difficult but I think it is worth a try at least. If I get my hundred the next three days after that will be all too easy. Very excited about what will happen, could be riding through my first serious weather.
Trip stats
Hours riding: 4:10.34
Day miles: 48.58
Total miles: 1242.0
Average speed: 11.6 mph
Max speed: 30.9 mph
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