ornoth | Voice Post: 2012 PMC Saturday: Wareham

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

Well, we made a hundred miles in six and a half hours, or a little bit less, and I'm now at Wareham. Before I left Lakeville we had a nice Italian ice, a lemon ice slushy thing, and stepped into a mist station: they have water sprays and I did that here, as well.

It's now above 90 degrees and we're definitely out of the protected section of the forest, so it's damned hot. It's not as humid as it was, but it's definitely baking now.

There's eight miles left to go... Unfortunately it's a nasty eight miles: it's thru the middle of Onset, which is kind of touristy and crowded, and then down along Route 6, which is just highway commercial hell.

But soon enough we'll make the turn down Adcademy Road into MMA, and it'll be nice to have a nice welcome from the crowd and then get a long, cold shower and then a massage. I'm looking very much forward to that after a really sticky, messy, gritty, all-around wet, ugly day. Despite that, having said all that, it's been a good day in the saddle, and I'm definitely enjoying it, although I'm definitely feeling it now.

I had to back off quite a bit. My legs aren't as bad right now because I did have to back off. I've been having some cardiac drift, so I've been having a hard time keeping my heart rate below about 85 or 90 percent. But it's not much longer to the end and then a well-earned rest.

I'm making good time -- not quite record time -- but definitely beating the crowd, and should have no line for the shower or the massage, I would think. But that depends on me getting off my butt and getting back in the saddle again, so that's what I'm off to do!

As usual, I will not make a post immediately upon arriving at the finish. I'm headed straight to the shower and then the massage, and then maybe we'll talk... So I'll talk to you again in maybe an hour or two.