Voice Post: 2012 PMC Saturday: Franklin

[ornoth]

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

Haha surprise! I'm in Franklin. I completely lost Jay on that whole segment, but now I've run into him again at the rest stop, so we're gonna try that one all over again.

Another very fast but very soaking wet, humid, misty, hot segment. Feeling pretty good, the legs are a little bit tight, but you know everything's going very well. Just generally having a decent time. Been pushing it along, but I think I'm gonna take it a little bit easier from here on out. Trying to stay ahead of the crowd, still,

So far it's nice. The crowds aren't huge in terms of the spectators as compared to normal, but it's always good to have people out, and there are sufficient people out to cheer us on. And gawd there's a lot of riders! Which means I want to keep moving to keep ahead of them.

Otherwise... Jay's inserting ice cubes inside his bandana! So we're trying to stay cool, and the best way to do that is to stay on the road and keep a little breeze in our faces.

We're gonna move on, but things are going well so far. And we're a good 43 miles into the ride, so we're more than a third of the way in: close to halfway almost, maybe in another hour or so. The next call will be from the lunch stop at Dighton.