The nature’s radiator must have gotten a hole in it and it began to overheat. My training has been done in 60s and 70s and I have been very content to do so. Well the south does not see temperatures like that except at night and in the dead of winter. Needless to say I am not exactly used to riding in the heat of the south and it made for a miserable day.
We came across this cemetery with these names. Hope this will not happen to me if I do this!
We rode down quite nice roads and it afforded us many miles of side-by-side riding. We had a slight dog issue but nothing which required a nasty spray to the face. We came across a field of nicely growing corn (another benefit of the many 90 degree days). We then started to get really warm and then warm turned to down right hot. We were following our maps and started to see that none of the cross streets were paved and we needed to turn on one coming up. Sure enough it was not paved which makes my 23mm tires useless. We did not ride on the dirt but had to continue on the road which led us a little out of the way (this is not so bad in a car but on a bike it is totally unenjoyable. We found a nice mail lady who gave us directions to the proper road and we were not too far off. Both of us were running out of water and getting hotter with each pedal revolution and then I noticed that I had another flat front tire. It seemed like one thing after another. Well the LORD has a plan! As I was noticing that my tire was going flat we came around a corner and there was a great convenience store where we changed the flat and got back on the road.
We had made plans earlier in the day to meet in the town of Hazelhurst, GA and my watch told me that we needed to be pedaling instead of sitting so off we went. We pulled into town after riding on some pretty down right badly surfaced roads (Watch out of Coffee County roads!) and started looking for the girls. We never found them but Dad did find a Dairy Queen (he has a helmet equipped with radar (okay it only seems that way). We found out later that the girls had waited at the very same DQ and we had only missed them by about 30 minutes. The AC was a very welcome feeling to the heater we had been in for the past few hours. We left feeling very refreshed and motivated with the news of only having about 24 miles left. We zoomed most of the way to the next city (almost all down hill!) and got more water and then pushed the rest of the way to Little Ocmulgee State Park. It was a very nice place for the night. While the kids slept, I decided to take a snooze myself. I woke up feeling anything but rested because I was running a 102 degree temperature. To accompany my fever, my throat felt like it had exploded and made every swallow painful and nearly unbearable. Not much supper. Early to bed. We will see if there will be biking tomorrow.
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