Voice Post: 2009 PMC Sat Bourne arrival

[ornoth]

The following is a transcription of a phone post that originally appeared in my main journal, here.

Well for those of you who've been waiting for the final post, I did in fact make it to Bourne. It was actually quite a slog. I really hit the wall on that last leg, ran out of power and just hobbled in.

Actually though, at the same time, I arrived a couple minutes before 1 o'clock, which I think may be a record, but it's at least 15 minutes ahead of the pace that I had set for myself as a goal. So on one hand it actually was an exceptionally quick ride, but a little bit painful at the end, and of course, I have mechanicals, which...

I just visited the mechanicals tent, or parking lot, or parking space, because there's only one guy with a tire pump, and that's about the extent of the mechanicals here at Bourne. Apparently other repairmen are going to show up later, but again they're not very confident that they'll be able to find a spoke for me even tonight.

So tomorrow may be another ginger day. Fortunately tomorrow is usually a day that I take it much easier, so we'll see how that goes. But we'll try them again around 4 o'clock.

Also since I got in I have of course had my shower and massage, which were nice, a hamburger and a Pepsi (sorry for the product placement). Right now I'm sitting next to the Cape Cod Canal and the view of the Bourne Bridge and the elevated railroad bridge that I'll actually probably talk about later.

I will send another update when I leave, probably either when I leave Bourne for Sandwich or when I get to Sandwich at the hotel, but that won't be until much later in the evening.

In the meantime, I'm going to spend the rest of the afternoon lounging around, ingesting as much as I possibly can to hopefully beat some of this fatigue that I've got, and eventually just passing out in the sun somewhere. It's a beautiful day, the sun is very warm. So it is hot, but there's plenty of shade around and cool breezes.

Very happy day so far, and appreciate everyone's interest and support and of course contributions. It's been a good year; it hasn't been a record-setting year, but at the same time I've reached all my goals. So I'm very happy with it, and enjoying the ride.

That's it for now, and I'll probably send another update in the 6 or 7 o'clock range.