Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Familiar signposts
Boonville, New York...
As we get ever closer to home, the signs of home are everywhere. License plates from Massachusetts and Vermont, yesterday a cluster of white birch trees and even a Red Sox bumper sticker brazenly displayed here in Yankee country. Sometimes the signs can take you to another continent altogether. As one of our fellow cyclists put it, the thought of reaching our destination is accompanied by mixed emotions. On the good days, one wants to keep riding on...
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so ... i'm curious about fatigue, lack of it, a sense of fitness . . . it's fantastic that you've spent a summer doing extreme physical feats like this.... how has your sense of limitation... of continental size been impacted?
ReplyDeletedon't want to overblow the benefits, but for sure we're feeling leaner and meaner, as Eliot put it. Naggy little aches and pains like the ones in my toe and in Mike's back have magically diminished, but not until after a period of intense adjustment and major pains in other areas. Sense of continental size has definitely been impacted, this land mass is HUGE...also its incredible diversity. Thanks for this food for thought, will elaborate more in final reflections on the tour.
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