When we started training for STP two years ago, I concluded I needed to switch from a hybrid to a road bike because after 30-40 miles, my hands wanted to be able to be in many different positions, and the flat bars of the hybrid made that hard to achieve.
"My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved;I have been given much and I have given something in return...Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and an adventure." O. Sacks