ornoth | Voice Post: 2014 PMC Day 1: Sturbridge

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

Good morning! It’s a little bit after 5am, and I’m at the PMC start for my 14th and final ride and the weather isn’t bad right now: it’s about 66 degrees, which is surprisingly warm; it was supposed to be much colder. It’s wet and a little sprinkly but the rain really hasn’t arrived yet, and if we’re lucky won’t arrive until midday, and hopefully by then I’ll be pretty close to the end. Still, I’m rigging for foul weather and expecting the worst. So we’ll see how it goes. I’m also pleased that it’s so warm because I left my arm warmers and my rear fender in my friend Jay’s car last night. I’ll pick them up partially along the way at the second water stop. But if it was colder or wetter, I would have missed those this morning, badly. Looking forward to the ride, looking forward to having today over, mostly because of the probably discomfort from the miles in my legs from yesterday, as well as the rain that’s promised. But had a very inspirational opening ceremonies last night; check it out on the web on wbz.com. They have a lot of their stories from the PMC this year online that you can stream. Otherwise, I’m just gonna go line up, wait for a little bit, and then hit the road. I will be posting updates as much as I can, pending the obvious intervention of rain and so forth. Tracking should also be up at this point, so feel free to follow me on that, which is at whereis.ornoth.com. That’s it for now; hopefully my reports will continue to be positive. (laugh)