My 124 miler turned into 100, but that's okay. It was not fun after about 90 . We did the Copper Country Color Tour (small college-student organized tour).

We had wild storms and wild winds Friday/Friday night (60mph gusts were forecast for that night, but I don't know what we actually got). It was still whippin' at my house in the morning. We decided to stash a vehicle at a convenient spot, just in case the winds sucked too much strength out of us. It was still in the 20-25mph range, gusting into the 30s for most of the way. The first 64 miles or so were great, because it was a tailwind! The next 35 not so much - we turned into the wind, along Lake Superior. It was only really bad in a few sections, but by about 90 DH and I were both toast. The non-existent 4th food stop was not appreciated, but I'd carried enough emergency stores to get by. We did WAY more stopping than I'd planned, as we were riding with a guy who was in a perpetual sprint-bonk-sprint-bonk-bonk-sprint-bonk-bonk-bonk... cycle (note the increasing proportions of bonking), beginning around 40 miles. He finally called his wife to come and get him at 87 (he rocked, really - suffering all that way still smiling, and still plugging along), so I figured we'd still be able to finish the whole thing. About 10 miles later we both decided to use the stashed car - feeling really bad. DH's computer read 100.5 or something when we got there, but mine was just at 99.6, so I had to ride around enough to get to 100. Yeah, I'm like that.

I'm glad we stopped at 100, because I'm having some knee pain now, which scares me. And a cold. I do have a certain "I'm a quitter" feeling, though, helped only by the number of people who stopped at the 1/2 way point.

It was an absolutely beautiful day yesterday! Wind not included, of course. The sun was shining (after the greyest, yuckiest day I've ever seen, on Friday), the colors were great, the temp started at about 50 at 8am, and got up to (I think) 63. I'm really glad I did it - once DH is ready to even think about it, I want to plan to do the whole thing next summer (maybe not the partially-supported, unmarked, sagged until the 1/2way point version).

Happy Fall, everybody!