Today was supposed to be a nice 4 hour ride - shorter than some of my past and future rides on this ironman adventure. Not a bad day me thinks. Rescue one box turtle on way so think carma is on our side.
Start out and realize I haven't had any caffeine. Putzed along until my riding partner, Tommy, finally suggested I get some 'juice' if we are ever going to finish this ride. Red Bull does trick. Start to cruise and 'BANG' - get a flat out in the boondocks. Use my handy-dandy tire changing kit but somehow waste my cartridge in the process, only partially inflating my tire. We visit a hardware store, gas station and a friendly neighborhood - none of which have any bike pumps.
Tommy goes in search of a biker to borrow another cartridge from. 45 minutes later he returns, we get tire blown up and start our ride. We have been trying to fix the tire for 90 minutes and now its about 90 degrees. The friendly chit-chat that we began is now gone - silence prevails as we start on our ride.
Realize that we have ridden farther than we needed to at some point. Neither of our odometers are working and my watch stopped. Turtle carma not paying off.
Had some good convenience stops today. Tommy lost his sunglasses at one point and after much searching, we realized they were on his head (do you think the heat was getting to us?). We also ran out of money at one point so couldn't afford more snacks:-(. At one convenience store near the end of our ride, the clerk took pity on us and let us hang out in their walk in cooler. I put all fear of being locked in a random place aside and enjoyed the chill.
Ended up being on my bike for 4 hours 40 minutes today. Will fix watch ASAP :-)
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