Friday, June 24, 2011

Day 5. Friday June 24th

Today everyone but me biked from Prineville to John Day, OR a distance of 116 miles. Unfortunately I only made the first 29.5 miles. I developed a painful blister on my upper leg where it
meets the rear on the inside. I decided that discretion would be the better part of valor and opted out of the ride at that point. The blister has since burst and is being treated and I will miss tomorrow's ride as well. I guess my new goal is to bike across as much of the USA as possible. Hopefully I will only miss the one day but they told
me the blister was in the worst possible place. The scenery was amazing today with widely variable temperatures. It was 36 degrees when we started with a head wind. Hopefully I will have better news tomorrow.

1 comment:

  1. Matt: Been trying to post comments but haven't been able to figure out how? Hopefully this will take. Great you are keeping us up to date on your ride, sorry to hear about the blister, sounds painful. Hopefully you'll catch up to the pack soon. Ride safe. Jim Knight

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