Believe it or not, we are still right on schedule. We are in (well, near) Fukuyama, our last stop in Honshu. Tomorrow we head to our third island, Shikoku. We plan to take a very scenic route, so all things considered, it looks like we have picked a good day for tomorrow's ride. In other words, the weather should be perfect, and we should actually be able to take some good pix.
We rode about 200 kilometers today, from Miriam's place to our next host Kenji's place. We didn't get here until about 7:45 p.m., but we would have arrived three hours earlier if it hadn't been for a little problem I had: a broken spoke on my rear wheel.
Long story short: About 150 km into the ride, I noticed that one of my rear spokes was busted. (I will explain later.) We pulled over, called my buddy Guy, and waited for him to look up some bike shops for us, since he had Internet access and we didn't. After several phone calls and visits to three shops, we finally made our way to a shop that could help us. Yeah, so I got the spoke replaced, and it turns out my rear hub was in desperate need of a good cleaning, so that was taken care of, too. (Huge thumbs up to Guy for his assistance.)
Otherwise, not much happened today, but the weather was great, we had a good ride, we had a nice breakfast at Miriam's (thank you!), and we made our latest goal. All in all a great day, really.
I apologize for the lousy post today, but I am really tired. This is the latest we have stayed up on this ride, I think.
No injuries besides the usual aches and pains, no rain, cool place to stay.
We are certainly excited that we are on schedule and we can smell the finish line. The broken spoke today, though, was just a little reminder that it ain't over until the fat lady sings. We have started thinking about the finish, but we are still taking the ride one day at a time.
Oh, yeah, one more thing. When we arrived in town, we went out to eat at a curry place. Normally, that would have been plenty, but our host took us out for dinner immediately after that. We had tons more food, and we finished it. Then we went to a convenience store and I grabbed an ice cream. And now we are at our host's house eating snacks and drinking a beer, only our second of the ride. It still blows my mind how much we eat!
OK, that's all for tonight.
Thanks for following. More to come soon!
Today's ride stats:
Distance: 121.97 miles (196.261 km)
Elapsed Time: 12:03:53
Time in Saddle: 7:17:50
Average Moving Speed: 16.7 mph
Maximum Speed: 38.8 mph
Calories Burned: 7060
Elevation Gain: 2861 ft
Max Elevation: 1382 ft
Average Temp: 76.4 F
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