Postcards From America

Did a pretty long bike ride yesterday (for me) now that I have time... 65 miler and pain never felt so good. It's funny how our bodies work - the first couple of miles are pretty mundane and almost worrisome, but then you get in the zone. All your body wants to do is get that cycling burn on and consume every kind of energy bar around. On a 4 hour ride, I ate 3 trail mix bars, 1 snickers bar, drank 1L of water, and a bottle of Gatorade. I am a CYCLING MACHINE!! I was pretty tired by the end though...

Somehow I managed to coincidentally ride my bike in an area and day where the Tour de Cure (a race to race money for diabetes research) in Maryland was happening, so I saw hundreds of other cyclists... all biking the OPPOSITE direction that I was going me. It must have looked like I was far ahead of them in the race because I was going back around on their loop. They all looked at me really funny when I was biking past them. As if this kid who was nearly half their age was whooping all them. It was awesome. I feel empowered. Only because I know most of those cyclists could sneeze and smoke me in a bike race.


The real point of this post was to say that
1) I leave in less than 6 days for Nags Head for orientation
2) If you want a postcard from the road, please comment with your address. I promise I will send you one. But I can't send it unless I have an address!

Sharif