May 12 - long ride

 Today we really packed it in! Starting off the morning in concord with eggs to fill out bellies for our long journey ahead of us. We then packed our backpacks with what we needed for the day, because today we didn’t use any gas. Today we biked 21 miles from Boscowen to PA. It felt so rewarding pulling up to proctor (although very tiring as well) on the sole power of our legs and the wheels of a bike. Overall it wasn’t too strenuous however between mile 11 and 16 we really questioned it all. It took us about 3 and a half hours although we did stop a couple times. After we got to proctor we ate lunch and boy did that hit the spot. We also did about an hour of work today. After lacrosse we topped our day off with a visit to elbow to cool ourselves. Such a luxury being able to access that spot! 



Hours logged today: 4 1/2

Hours logged total: 18 1/2 




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