I might have list my temper more than once today. I yelled at people, at myself but mostly at the road. Smooth your roads Louisiana! Smooth. Your. Roads. Smooth! Terrible.
All is more or less well but today wasn't the day that yesterday was, today was poor overall. It was supposed to be a short day so I was slow in the morning and started late. Let's felt good and I thought today was going to be great. Right out of the gate I took a wrong turn and added ten miles to the trip. Then the road was bumpy and the wind was blasting in my face. Right in my face. Then I took another wrong turn and added about fifteen miles to the trip. My short about sixty mile day quickly became just under ninety. Then it started getting dark and I had to ride about ten miles in the dark. Then, two miles out of town, the slow leak in my tube I had gotten thirty miles ago blew. It was a full on flat now, not going anywhere with it. I didn't want to change a tire in the dark so I decided to just walk into town. Thankfully a nice lady pulled over and drove me in and thank God because it would have taken a long time to walk in. Now I'm chilling in the local fire department on their couch which will be a nice place to sleep. Tomorrow I'll change the tire and might detour up the road to find a bike shop. I just don't feel comfortable without a backup tube, especially since this tube of mine that burst can't be patched. Big burst.
So it wasn't a great day today and to top it off I'm missing the football game because nobody gets NFL network down here. I'm not sure why we get so much NFL network in Canada but in America nobody has it. Bring me football America, it's what I crave.
Tomorrow will be better, it has to be.
Trip stats
Hours riding: 6:27.26
Day miles: 86.30
Total miles west: 1047.23
Average speed: 13.3
Max speed: 30.2
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