Headwinds, and another blog link

Day 6 134 miles (102 on I-40) 17.8 mph for 7:33. Tough tough day. Yet I'm really leery of saying this is the worst, as methinks there's much more where this came from. All those miles on the interstate were nasty, and the headwinds were atrocious. The last 50 miles gave us 20 - 30 mph head and cross winds. OUCH OUCH OUCH. I've a stitch that's been showing up at 80 miles, usually lasting until 85 or so. Today, mercifully, it didn't appear until 92. Unmercifully, it stuck around until 134. I continuously found my shoulders glued to my ears, and kept having to remind myself to breathe and relax them down my back. But mostly my body is doing incredibly well, given what I'm asking it to do on a daily basis.

We have one more long day to Albuquerque tomorrow of 145 miles, then a rest day. As Greg said we have 7 days of riding, a rest day, 8 days of riding, a rest day, then 10 days of riding before our 365 rest days.

Alan Alda is on the trip with us. OK, Bill doesn't look much like Alda, but he sounds EXACTLY like him. I close my eyes and listen to him (no, not while I'm riding) and it's uncanny.

Mike Munk is the ride leader and he's also keeping a blog with far more information, if you're interested. Here's the link.

http://bamacyclist.com/Journal2008/FastSouthjournal08/2008fastsouth.htm