I had a great send off today Grandpa Clayton making me breakfast and cool but sunny day. It was pretty good road out of Sudbury on highway 69 which turns into the trans Canada. There is a huge shoulder and fairly new pavement. The hills are also blasted out so there are no climbs just little rises here and there. Everything was perfect except the 20km headwind with 25km gusts and you guessed it the saddle sores- stay tuned!
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Daily Archives: July 21, 2012
Day 47 – Blind River to Sudbury – 175 kilometers
I slept pretty good last night and subsequently slept in a bit. Outside the wind was blowing pretty good from the East which meant I should wait it out. I decided to worked on blogging instead and finally got on the road around 11 which is very late. The find was 24km/hr plus gusts and I was making it nowhere fast. I was also a bit fatigued from all of the previous couple of weeks and just couldn’t get going.
I took a long time just to make 20 kilometers and around that time I decide to stop for some food: bagels with peanut butter and chocolate, I had two!
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