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September 4, 2004
Bike tour of New England
Well, it turned out that I didn't need to worry that I wouldn't be able to keep up on the bike ride this morning--I did just fine. C. had the route planned and pretty much knew where we were going, but after about an hour she realized that we would be riding for 5 hours if we continued to follow this particular route (she underestimated the distance.) Between map consults (there were many) and one chain issue (fixed surprisingly quickly), we did stop a few times but rode for a good three and half hours. My odometer was acting up so I don't know how far we went exactly, but we were keeping up a good pace for most of it.
I felt pretty good except for a twinge in the area where my quad connects to my knee. It bothered me climbing up some particularly tough hills. I iced it soon after I got home and it is sore now but doesn't seem too bad--I'll see tomorrow when I run on it.
The ride was really fun today because I got to see a lot of towns around Boston that I'd heard about, but never been through. We were in Belmont, where I saw McLean Hospital, the famous psychiatric hospital that was featured in Girl, Interrupted and I'm sure countless other books and movies; Lincoln, where we took a detour through a neat sculpture garden; Concord, where we passed Walden Pond (looks more like a lake to me); Sudbury, Waltham and a few other towns I can't remember right now. C. grew up in Cambridge so she pointed out some of the sights to me. Except for a few hairy portions on a small highway, there wasn't too much traffic.
During the rest of the day, I wasn't quite as productive as I wanted to be, but I bought my books for school, picked up some school supplies, cleaned the apartment and took a badly-needed nap. Tonight, we saw Maria, Full of Grace, which we had been wanting to see for a few weeks. It was really great--disturbing, but excellently done. We realized that there are two movie theaters really close to us, so next time we have a free moment (ha) we'll have to go back and see some more.
I'm so excited that cross country season has started. Time to check results of this weekend's little meets!
Posted by becky at September 4, 2004 11:27 PM