P12 - 6th 100 k ride this year 6 to go!
This past month I have not felt well. Between a cold that knocked me out for a week and a frozen shoulder, I have felt, well, under the weather. Not sleeping well, that's for sure. But of course life goes on, and I had to do my 100 k ride for June. 100k=62.5 miles, right?
So when one of the ladies that I know that is also pursuing a P12 sent out an email, i thought, wow, great, perfect weather, let's do it. I blithely ignored the fact that it went through some hilly areas and was 120 Km, hoping that it wouldn't matter. I got my husband involved as well, I suggested we take the tandem since we are doing a big ride in 2 weeks.
It was a new route, that means it hasn't been ridden by anyone except the author of it before. That sounded kind of neat at first.. but then as we continued to find ourselves on roads no one really likes to ride on (like hwy 99 in seatac!!!) and making left turns onto other busy streets we became less and less impressed with the ride. At about the halfway point, this particular ride became VERY hilly after being mostly flat. We had to get over Burien hill. I found myself feeling shaky and nauseous but we pushed on.
When we found ourselves at mile 70 something in our own backyard, we were dismayed to find that the ride author didn't go along the lake (completely flat) but went up yet another hill to avoid the road with a bike lane!
For the most part, people in cars were incredibly kind and patient, how about that! And finally we found ourselves turning into the supermarket parking lot where we started. We had ridden 79 miles or 129 kilometers and are totally beat..
only 6 more to go. I will pick a shorter one for next month!
