Today was hard; really hard.
The infamous Carrara section of la ruta served up some tank stopping mud.
My derailleur decided it would see what it was like on top of the cassette for a change. Not good.
This mysterious incident happened just as our lead group dropped off the mountain top into the muddy hell. Steep ravines rivers and rutted bottomless red clay. This up and down section ended up taking even longer today since my bike malfunction had me extracting the chain from the spokes, oh and my only usable 5 gears were Big ring in the front. Needless to say the next 3 hours would be silly hard. Lots of running and riding in retarded gears! Weeee!
I was taking it in stride and decided to have fun and see if i could catch anyone to ride with.
I was lucky enough to catch up to Tinker and Alex on the 20 k 4,000 ft climb on the road.
That was the pick me up I needed to push thru. Glad to be done that! Ha ha ha.
Tomorrow things will go smoother... I think :)
JB
posted by Jeremiah Bishop # 6:23 PM 
