Last night Carol the Instigator tried to convince some of us to ride the North Star train into the Cities, but I said I needed to bike the whole route. When the south wind pushed hard against the side of my tarp early this morning, I quickly changed my mind. I'm so sick of headwind! And some of us, including myself, are having trouble with saddle sores. So we biked 21 miles to Big Lake, got more bandages and Desitin at Walgreens, had an hour to hang out at Caribou Coffee, then spent the best $2.50 of our lives to ride the train to Fridley, some 4 miles from the scheduled lunch stop.
We then biked into the city and met Stephanie of The Fit Tourist on the Stone Arch Bridge for a quick overview of the historical significance of the things you can see from the bridge. Some of us took the green line train across to St. Paul, some biked. I was really getting into the idea of "rest day" by then.
Stats for the day:
35.75 miles
3:08:19 saddle time
11.39 mph average
24.64 mph max
268 miles total for the trip
20:45 total time so far
1 great friend who helped tend a very tender area of my body and took me out for the most satisfying dinner of the whole trip
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