It was hard to keep our mind on our objective today, as our butt's were sore, it was 97 degrees, the trail was muddy in places, but mostly dry and rocky; and we were just plain tired. Zak & Michaela rode 16 miles with us at the beginning of the day. Michaela found a turtle on the trail, we had to make a stop for investigation. The canal is very swampy and among all the woods it gives a bit of a creepy feeling at times. . . so Michaela calls it Shrek's Swamp. We've seen very few people on the trail, especially this part.
After dropping off the kids with David at the pick up point, which by the way, it all went smooth today . . . we pushed on ahead. Although, about 10 miles in, Kera began having troubles with her bike and was feeling overwhelmed by the heat. At the next town, she found help for her bike and all is back to normal, but we both decided to not go any further and to get up early to add the extra miles on tomorrow's ride. Today's ride only produced 32 miles.
Our plan is to get up early tomorrow and ride, ride, ride!
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You are all doing so well! Praise the Lord! Sounds so pretty and interesting, but I could not take that heat, so am praying you will be able to endure and press on. Good idea getting rest and getting going earlier. I recommend it for every hot day left! When I lived in Reding and had to work outside, I got up at 3 or 4 am to go for a walk or bike ride to kep fit. Of course, that was about 10 years back, when I was younger!
Keep going with the strength of the Lord! Praying for you here on a 55 degree day that still has fog (which I happen to love!) at noon.
One other trick I used to use: pour water on yourself and go. It helped me a LOT! Only thing I can say for the sore rump, is a different seat could help-ask Linda about that!
With Jesus' Love, Bonnie Acosta
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