Sunday - Not a Day of Rest!

Hi Folks,

It is a week since we last accessed the Blog and much more than about a thousand miles has passed since then.

Steve has worked his way back into full fitness by progressively increasing his daily mileage and judiciously selecting the stages to ride over Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. By Thursday, Friday and Saturday the routes were flat and he successfully completed all three. Today finished with 35 miles of wicked rollers and he showed the full benefits of his recovery program by ripping the legs off everyone around.

While off the bike he got an insight into the workings of the PAC tour crew. One day while travelling in the scout car he was party to the quick decision-making that occurs when the route is disrupted by heavy machinery ripping up the road. He had fun painting the detour signs on the road to divert the riders around the obstruction. The riders had "fun" negotiating 3 extra miles of tortuous climbs in the hot sun.

Today was an interesting day lots of rain - yes, we broke the drought - a big rip in Rob's tyre and three punctures between the two of us. Luckily our remaining Ohio boy was carrying a spare fold up tyre. We also managed to miss the turn off to lunch so had to stop at a servo for turkey rolls and iced coffee. The afternoon turned out to be good - through a forest for about the last 30 miles into Athens, OH. (Rob says that if Confucius was a cyclist he would have said "whatever goes down must come up").