and tomorrow we ride.

and we arrive at may 14th. it seems so long ago that i was running through my head, the night before the davis double century, and now we have arrived. life is like that i guess. the distance between two places may seem so great and vast, and then we are just there. like sleep in a way. so many thoughts move through us just before drifting off, and then we are gone. off. asleep. and then we wake, in some ways, feeling as if nothing ever happened. no eight hour expanse of space, no small piece of life.

pehaps that's how tomorrow will go. at least the first eight hours anyway, as i figure there is a decent chance i may be on the bike for sixteen hours. good god. my goal is to finish a good two or three hours faster than that, but who knows? 200 miles is a long bike ride. yes indeed. so i look forward to my evening. dinner and a ride downtown with friends. a heaping scoop of ice cream looms on the horizon. then we will sleep, wake, eat, and riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide. how many eyes are there in a 200 mile ride? how many waking dreams are found in the aching muscles? what will i be thinking of at mile 190? will there be music in my head, or just the constant din of fatigue?

life is brimming with questions no?

wish me luck.

j

Posted by jeff pitcher at May 14, 2004 02:26 PM

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