Detours and Wind

Day two is behind us. Just under 6o miles again today. O.K. so that includes the 5 miles we rode in the truck over the Mackinaw Bridge. I say it counts Jan's not so sure. I say it makes up for the stiff wind we rode into for the 30 miles to get to the bridge.

We're feeling pretty good today. I actually feel a whole lot better today than I did yesterday. I finally had an appetite today. My stomach has finally stopped rumbling and food finally looks desirable. Considering that the first 30 miles were into a stiff 10 to 20 mph gusty wind, the temperatures topped out around 60 we are feeling really good. Yes the bottoms are sore but my legs don't feel nearly as bad today as they did yesterday. So that's the "wind" in the title. Cold and blustery. Oh so many things I could say about riding into the blustery wind for 3 to 4 hours. Oh! did I mention the long steady grades we encountered.

Detours! Yesterday we got a hotel right on the west side of a significant detour. When we went to supper we asked the waitress if we could just go through and skip the detour. She said no. Undeterred we asked our waitress at breakfast. Same answer. Not wanting to give up just yet we asked the Michigan DOT man in the parking lot of our motel. The answer for the 3rd time "NO". So reluctantly we took the detour. About halfway into the detour route we were asking ourselves "Why did we resist this detour so much?" We were out of the wind. There were some nice down hills. It wasn't nearly as long as we thought it might be. It was actually one of the more pleasurable sections of our ride today.

I think of the detour I am on right now in my life. Not what I wanted to do. But I hope that I can feel as good about this detour as we did about ours today. There certainly is less wind and some nice downhills on this detour to this point.