I’m going to have to get more lights…
… because the days are getting shorter, and I’m having a devil of a time getting out and onto the road before a good chunk of the day is gone.
Today I rolled out the door at 11:40, didn’t even spend more than about a hour and a half off the bike at checkpoints, but still only got 106 miles of riding in (and made the discovery that cold lemonade can de-fry me in under 15 minutes; I’d set up home as the 94 mile checkpoint so I could drop off donuts, and when I carried the bicycle into the house I didn’t know if it was feasable to continue. two tall glasses of lovely cold lemonade and I was ready to head on out and roll the odometer over the magic 100 mark) before the sun plunged like a stone behind Tualatin Mountain and left me scampering quickly home on Woodstock before it got totally dark.