Last night felt the full furry of a Manitoba storm. In fact it was just like the Saskatchewan storm with a little more thunder and lightening but no tornado or hail. It was hard to sleep but I think that was really because I ate a chocolate bar before bed. I am really eating a of food these days. No idea but full breakfast, pre lunch, lunch, afternoon splurg, dinner and about 6 bottles of water and/or Gatorade. Sometimes I wake up in the night and eat as well.
At around 8am (I am on Central time now) I was woken by loud thunder again. Outside there was lightening and torrential rain. I got up and jogged passed literal streams of water to get to the Clay Pot Cafe to get my “Donated breakfast”. Breakfast was excellent and waitress wanted a picture so after getting ready I came back with the bike for a proper picture. By then the rain had stopped and it was nice and cool to start.
Back out on the highway I hit a 500 meter gravel patch where the shoulder should be and grumpily road in the gravel to the other side where I complained bitterly on Twitter. It was unnecessary and undeserved since the road was good except the last 6 kilometers into Portage la Prairie. And who can complain when they have a slight tailwind anyway?
